Getting Claude Code to grunt in Caveman-speak might not save as many tokens as you think
Developers are paying closer attention to how much their AI coding tools cost them to run. A 'caveman mode' approach—making AI respond in terse, grammar-free replies to reduce token consumption—claims up to 65% output token savings. However, JetBrains benchmarks found actual savings of only about 8.5% on real coding tasks, with no loss in response quality.
Getting Claude Code to grunt in Caveman-speak might not save as many tokens as you think
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