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Improving LLM token usage when debugging
Recently, I have been working extensively with LLM-powered coding assistants - Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf - and I noticed a frustrating pattern. Every time these tools run a command for me, they...
When your LLM assistant is helping you debug multiple build issues, running tests, and checking git status, it's processing thousands of unnecessary tokens. Without filtering, the LLM would have received hundreds of lines of test runner initialization, webpack bundling messages, and git's verbose status output. The good news is that patterns are just simple regex strings in the config file - you can easily tweak them anytime to match your exact error formats.
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