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How Much Does Your Lunch Break Cost in Claude Code Tokens?

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You step away for lunch with a big Claude Code session open. You come back, type one message, and continue. Nothing looks different. But that one message may have cost 20 times more than the one before it. I wanted a real number, so I scanned a month of my own Claude Code logs. The short answer: a…

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