Four settings to stop your premium model credits from burning: Sonnet works, Haiku explores
socialwithaayan · x · 2026-11-12
drcintas shared four steps to stop burning weekly credits on premium models:
- Set /effort per task; default is medium and high burns fastest
- For most tasks run claude --model sonnet --advisor fable — the cheaper model does the work with the advisor on call
- Add .claude/agents/explore.md with model: haiku, otherwise Explore reads files on an expensive model
- Run /claude-api prompt-audit to clear stale instructions
socialwithaayan says he'd use this setup for most of his research.
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