New comment by dividendflow in "We cut Claude's token usage 79% by redesigning our CLI for agents"

dividendflow — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:57:08 +0000

Designing interfaces specifically for agents (M2M DX) is a fascinating shift from traditional human-centric CLI design. We're moving from a world where "pretty" output and progress bars mattered to a world where raw, structured density is the goal. A 79% reduction is massive, but I wonder if we’ll see a new type of "Agent-Optimized" protocol emerge that completely bypasses the text-heavy nature of current CLIs. The overhead of an LLM trying to parse "human" terminal output is essentially a tax on every call.

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New comment by dividendflow in "We cut Claude's token usage 79% by redesigning our CLI for agents"