I was burning through AI tokens without realizing...

I've been using Claude Code and Codex daily for months. They're some of the best programming tools I've tried. But there's something nobody tells you when you start: context runs out fast, and the cost grows exponentially. The real problem isn't the message you're sending When you're 50 messages into a session and you send message 51, your CLI doesn't just send that message. It sends all 51. The entire conversation, from the beginning, with every single request. On top of that, Claude Code's sys