How to halve Claude output costs with a markdown tweak

InfoWorld
Mar 31, 2026, 5:58 am7 pts
In a quiet corner of GitHub better known for weekend experiments than paradigm shifts, Drona Reddy, a data analyst at Amazon US, has published a single markdown file that promises to cut Claude’s output token usage by more than half, not by changing code, but by reshaping the model’s behavior. The file,…

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