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		joelthelion 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code It probably makes sense to continue using third party tools such as aider, for now. Anthropic doesn't have a lot of incentives to reduce token usage.

mil22 5 months ago | [–]

Apart from, of course, the incentive of being undercut on price by the competition at (likely soon) a similar level of performance.

Copenjin 5 months ago | [–]

Yes, thinking the same thing here.

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