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Edit was eating my budget

Max May 18, 2026
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Anthropic’s Edit(OLD, NEW, PATH) makes you re-pay for “where” on every call. OLD is a pointer in tokens — sending it for each edit is like paying postage to read your own address book. So we taught Claude vi. The wire only carries the change, not the lookup key.

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