Joke token-saving project passes Gemini CLI stars; Caveman Code costs $1.83 vs Claude Code's $7.65
ycombinator · x · 2026-11-13
Caveman, a joke project built to cut token usage (started to get the author's AI bill under his grocery bill), has passed Gemini CLI in GitHub stars, and its coding agent "Caveman Code" is now out.
The author's benchmark: same model, a day of work in connected apps — Claude Code cost $7.65 while Caveman Code cost $1.83, with token compression as the core cost-saving mechanism.
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