Claude Code Now Shows Exactly Where Your Usage Goes
Claude Code 2.1.174 adds a usage attribution view that breaks down where your tokens go: cache misses, subagents, skills, plugins, and MCP. VS Code only for now.
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Opus 4.8 Launched, but Fast Mode Was the Real Win for Me
Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 with higher coding scores and frozen pricing — but as someone running Claude Code all day, the 2.5x faster, 3x cheaper fast mode was what actually landed.
5 Token-Saving Habits From 3 Months With Claude Code
After three months running blog automations with Claude Code, here are the 5 token-saving patterns that stuck. I broke each one at least once first.
Three Months With Claude Code: 35 Jobs, 26 Killed
Three months in, I cut 90% of my writing time with Claude Code. But I also killed 26 automation jobs along the way. Here’s what stuck and what didn’t.