patrick szymkowiak

patrick szymkowiak

Founder of RTK & Kexa.io | EuraTech

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Which shell commands waste the most tokens in your AI coding agent?

Hey! RTK launches tomorrow

Quick question for devs using AI coding agents: which shell commands generate the most token waste for you?

For me it was cargo test 155 lines down to 3 with RTK.

Drop your worst offenders below

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