I like Claude Code a lot, but one thing still feels weirdly opaque to me: token burn while you are deep in a session.
When I am iterating fast, the bill usually shows up after the fact. By then I already made the expensive choices. Long context, repeated retries, and bouncing between models can get surprisingly costly before you really notice it.
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