Best practices to extend AI usage limits and optimize token consumption
yigitaga32 · reddit · 2026-08-22
The author frequently hits usage limits while using AI for coding and is seeking community best practices. Current strategies include:
- Keeping sessions small.
- Documenting decisions in AGENTS.md.
- Compacting context frequently.
The main bottleneck identified is that context compaction can sometimes trigger more tool calls later, and prompt compaction tools like Caveman are less effective when the context is dominated by code or tool output. This raises questions on how to efficiently manage token consumption and agent memory.
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