Volodymyr Zakhovaiko
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Oct 05, 2026

One setting cut my Claude Code cost per request by 39%. My first three mods: under 1%.

I replayed a month of my Claude Code logs. Most of the cost is the model re-reading context, so one setting that compacts earlier cut the cost of a request by 39%. The first three mods I wrote: under 1%.

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Oct 05, 2026

One setting cut my Claude Code cost per request by 39%. My first three mods: under 1%.

I replayed a month of my Claude Code logs. Most of the cost is the model re-reading context, so one setting that compacts earlier cut the cost of a request by 39%. The first three mods I wrote: under 1%.

AIDXCost

Aug 26, 2026

I priced thirteen hosting providers for the same small app. The spread was 14x.

One real app - 5,000 users, 1.6M requests, 108 GB of egress - priced on Hetzner, Railway, Render, Fly, Vercel, Cloudflare, Supabase, Firebase, DigitalOcean, Heroku, Sevalla, AWS and GCP with August 2026 list prices. Then priced again at ten times the traffic, because the slope matters more than the starting point.

CloudDevOpsCost

Dec 12, 2024

How to bankrupt your client or why you should avoid using "on push" events on Github Actions

Long story short, I almost bankrupted our client...

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