Full video of Anthropic’s Claude Code lead on model choice and token cost
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-07-27
This reply points to the full video of Anthropic’s Claude Code lead Boris Cherny talking about model usage and token cost.
- His core claim is that there may be limited room to optimize spend, but much larger upside in improving model returns.
- The practical advice is to stop over-focusing on token cutting and instead use the strongest model when it matters.
- The post links the full Scale video.
Related event: Anthropic Lead Urges Optimizing LLM Returns Over Token Costs(2 posts)→
More from coding & agent
- theo builds his own visualizer for today's agent models, showing how cheap Luna really is — ivan_bezdomny · 2026-09-23
- Vite+ Hits RC: One Rust-Powered CLI to Replace Your Entire Web Toolchain — cnakazawa · 2026-09-23
- Tesla's in-car Grok agent books trips across Gmail, Calendar and Notion in one command — xiaohu · 2026-09-23
- Tesla's In-Car Grok Assistant Now Executes Cross-App Tasks in One Sentence — xiaohu · 2026-09-23
- Garry Tan says Capy lets him ship PRs much faster than Codex or Claude Code — garrytan · 2026-09-23
- DeskPilot: open-source native Python desktop client for local LLMs with MCP and sandboxed tools — poofph · 2026-09-23