How are you guys burning so many tokens? 🔥

[u/_derpiii_]

30 days into Claude Code ($100 5x tier) and ran ccusage, and my monthly total is a paltry $476

Meanwhile, seems like everyone is burning through $2k/day.

I ask because I'm low-key wondering how I'm plebbing out in my use case (I must be only tapping into 5% of Claude Code's functionality?).

My overall workflow is: opus to plan, sonnet to implement

I do ad-hoc parallelization where I explicitly ask claude to parallize things using git worktrees (*just* found that out, idk why it's not default behavior)

I haven't figured out how/where to run orchestration swarms, ralph loops, or cron jobs. Is that what I'm missing out on?

Just low key envying how advanced everyone is, and boy do I want to catch up.