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I kept watching Claude burn through tokens reading entire files to answer simple questions, so I used Claude Code to build a fix for it. (dekko, open source, free)

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Here's the moment that got me. I asked Claude Code a simple question, "who calls this function," and watched it grep blind, open three files it didn't need, and burn through fifteen thousand tokens to answer something a good IDE would tell you in one click. That's when I knew something was broken.…

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  1. 2026-09-11 11:50 · r/ClaudeAI
    I kept watching Claude burn through tokens reading entire files to answer simple questions, so I used Claude Code to build a fix for it. (dekko, open source, free)

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