Claude Code head: skip token savings, use the priciest model for 10,000x returns
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-07
Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, on optimizing token cost and model use: there's maybe a 50% opportunity to cut token spend, but a 1,000%, 10,000%, or even 100,000% opportunity to increase returns. So he simply uses the most expensive model and focuses on getting more out of it. He also says "I use Fable for everything."
Related event: Claude Code Lead: Don't Save Tokens, Bet on the Priciest Model(2 posts)→
More from coding & agent
- Alchemy's Lambda Web Functions run plain Node web servers on Lambda, no OpenNext needed — samgoodwin89 · 2026-10-27
- Alchemy Domain brings domain-driven design and story testing to Effect backends — samgoodwin89 · 2026-10-27
- Alchemy makes all ~2,850 AWS bindings work from any cloud, not just S3/Lambda/DynamoDB — samgoodwin89 · 2026-10-27
- Production AI agent scored 95% robustness at baseline, 37% under adversarial attack — njyx · 2026-10-27
- Chaining Grok Bot and Codex to detect and mass-block AI reply accounts — vista8 · 2026-10-27
- huggingface_hub 2.3.0 cuts 1M-file listings to 20s, adds live Bucket following — lhoestq · 2026-10-27