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80% of my Claude Code bill was output that never left the context

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I had a number I could not explain. ccusage told me what I spent. Good tool, does its job. But the biggest line in it was cache_read — the charge for re-reading the whole conversation on every single turn — and nothing told me what I kept re-reading. So I wrote nenpi (燃費, Japanese for "fuel economy…

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    80% of my Claude Code bill was output that never left the context

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