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I measured the viral "talk like a caveman" token saver. A two-word prompt got most of it.

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There is a repo doing the rounds called caveman . Its pitch, verbatim from its own GitHub description: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like a caveman. It's one of the most-starred repos on GitHub. The idea is fu…

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  1. 2026-10-16 10:49 · DEV Community — AI
    I measured the viral "talk like a caveman" token saver. A two-word prompt got most of it.

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