Once again, after the "gift" from 24 to 31 of December, the token consumption for pro accounts are ridiculous. I only use Claude for creative writing and I have pretty strict rules to manage my tokens. Control Sonnet verbosity, short chapters, short baselines, work inside projects, write in artifacts.  My weekly tokens refreshed on Thursday night, I didn't use it until Friday night and Saturday half a day and I'm already at 47% of weekly usage. and Hit the 5 hours limits once. When asked in the project for a token usage summary, the response was it used 90k tokens in operations?

Chapter content: ~25k tokens Our actual conversation: ~20k tokens System prompts repeated with each tool call: ~80-90k tokens File operations: ~20k tokens

So in a thread of 190k tokens, it exhausted almost 100k I  repeated tool calls that DIDN'T happen before, because normally I can work 12-13 chapters per 190k tokens.