So Anthropic have made a change that prevented people from wasting tokens? I’m sure they’ll be very keen to reverse that.
Showing the tool call string does not waste tokens.
That’s just how they display information to the user — tool calls no longer show arguments unless they need use permissions, and they’re often hidden entirely being “4 tools called”.
As per the article, knowing when the tool is reading totally unrelated files allows devs to cancel the workflow early before it churns thousands of tokens on output that is based on totally incorrect information
From the article, fourth paragraph:
There’s also a financial impact. If developers spot that Claude is going down a wrong track, they can interrupt and avoid wasting tokens.
@[email protected] understood what I was referring to, I don’t really understand what you thought I was saying.
