A Practical Guide to Reducing Token Spend
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By switching from an AI skill-based workflow to a deterministic "swamp" workflow for code reviews, token usage dropped 8x (from 4.5 million to 500,000 tokens) and runtime was cut in half. The key insight: stop putting AI in every decision loop — use deterministic code where possible, and reserve AI only where intelligence is actually needed.
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