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		simonw 44 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You should write an agent You can reverse engineer Claude Code by intercepting its HTTP traffic. It's pretty fascinating - there are a bunch of ways to do this, I use this one: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/2/claude-trace/

nylonstrung 44 days ago [–]

Wow it seems almost designed to burn through tokens.

I wish we had a version that was optimized around token/cost efficiency

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