I Built an App to Steal $50M Back from Claude Code

If you'd told me a year ago that good manners were costing me money, I'd have laughed. I'm a developer. I use Claude Code every day — debugging, refactoring, shipping features. I trusted it. I was also paying $180 a month for it, a number I'd rationalized as the cost of being a serious AI power user. Then I pulled three months of session logs and started counting. The 35% Problem Roughly a third of my input tokens were going to content that provided zero signal to the model. Phrases like: "Could