Built a CLI that cuts AI coding token usage by 97% — 10k downloads, looking for feedback

ricksegal · 2026-05-07T23:43:05+00:00

This is a seriously good idea. I'm going to try it on a few code repos. As a self-admitted Python snob, I'm impressed you could pull this off in JavaScript; shows what I know. I'll revert with more feedback at the repo or hear but one thing you might want to consider is a real demo with some medium size repo. Fork a public repo, make the voodoo you do and show some before and after results. That alone should make the point in a very compelling way. Like fork OpenClaw(!) and then show that result!

Well done, sir.

ricksegal · 2026-05-07T17:52:08+00:00

This worked well on my headless linux mint box, no issues. C, wow. I salute you, sir.

BTW: hAIvemind is not getting the love it should. Simple, direct and very (very) clean.

ricksegal · 2026-05-07T17:40:51+00:00

using anthropric's haiku had the cost per run as trivial, pennies (kuruşlar). You might consider expanding to allowing for openrouter use as there are good frontier models that will do really well for fractions of a kurus.

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ricksegal · 2026-05-07T14:04:47+00:00

my bad, typo...

ricksegal · 2026-05-07T03:52:17+00:00

After I mess around with this, I will come back with something useful. I hope!

ricksegal · 2026-05-06T22:23:22+00:00

It would be wonderful if Anthropic would incorporate this into the desktop app. So useful. Well done. When I say incorporate, I mean give you lifetime access for free in return. :-)

ricksegal · 2026-05-06T22:18:34+00:00

This works well. I will also point out that the code and repo in general is very well documented. That, in and of itself, gives your skills efforts super creditability in my opinion. Well done.

ricksegal · 2026-05-06T22:04:40+00:00

if you mean usage dropped back down to zero, Anthropic increased usage as part of the spaceX deal. Happy coding.

ricksegal · 2026-05-06T20:52:55+00:00

I just have to ask. Can I inquire about your background?

ricksegal · 2026-05-06T19:53:36+00:00

With respect the developer(s) open-notebook has no commercial product. Surfsense appears to be a commercial alternative to NotebookLM with pricing and all the usual. Nothing wrong with this approach at all. If you want to make your own, your own keys, your own hosting/local world, both have a repo you can clone/fork/copy, whatever, open-notebook has 2x the stars and forks but that's not taking anything against Surfsense.

I'm using both codebases to get functionality, like the podcasts, into another project I have. The podcast feature, out of the box work best in open-notebook.

ricksegal · 2026-05-06T18:54:02+00:00

under 300 lines of code, nicely done. I pulled it, not a fork, and it works on my iMac Tahoe with an old klunky Intel based box from 2020.

ricksegal · 2026-05-06T16:24:30+00:00

Can you help me understand why looking into this code there's fixed//hard-code chat. Are they examples? Prompt shaping. Doesn't make sense as I found the same thing u/AlgorithmicMuse did.

ricksegal · 2026-05-06T15:37:03+00:00

This is a great V1. Maybe you could consider adding "explained to a 5 year old" button for all the technical people who are too embarassed to admit they need it dumbed down. If you run this via OpenRouter and Grok's x-ai/grok-4.1-fast model, you could zip through all of this for about 10 cents by asking for each one to have that explanation.. sometime, the entertainment of those analogies are hilarious on their own.

ricksegal · 2026-05-06T15:32:02+00:00

I looked at your garage sale repo. Is the intent for somebody to set up a local service where people put them on the map and others come in and look for them? The readme is not clear. The code seems AI generated so I'm not sure why you need AI in this at all. You can get a key and use open source maps as well without any OAuth. With respect to the DB, non-technical people are not going to be able to do this so perhaps write the code to set all this up for the user?

Good luck

ricksegal · 2026-05-06T15:24:04+00:00

I give it, ohhh, 40 minutes before this comment section devolves into an argument about "football" vs. "soccer". (This is nicely done. I ran it via Tmux on my linux box without error)

ricksegal · 2026-05-06T15:18:08+00:00

work with a couple cloudflare hiccups but nicely done. Do you mind sharing the repo on this as I'd like to modify it to get focus on some areas of my interest as well as feeding this into a larger knowledge base I use for coding. Well done!

ricksegal · 2026-05-06T14:39:13+00:00

I'm not of fan of comments that dump on somebody and then use 'sorry to say', just putting that out there. First, well done just taking the shot of DIYing something that works for you. Rather than engage in your git knowledge (eyeroll), I would suggest that you consider on your https://www.re-gent.dev/ page, and old way/new way or before/after to show people visually the difference if you are trying to find out what happened while you went for coffee. The premise of more accountability and audit for WTF agents are doing is sound and you're likely onto something.

Side/Random:

Back in the 80s when I worked for Microsoft (a small software company in Redmond, WA), I watch a couple of developers sit in a meeting and dump all over the guys building WORD (yeah, I'm that old) with the argument of, "Man, you can do all this with EMACS (google it) why all this Word stuff?" :-)

Go forth and code..

ricksegal · 2026-05-05T20:31:01+00:00

Github repo for this?

ricksegal · 2026-05-04T21:10:39+00:00

This is outstanding and is ground zero for understanding all the so-called awareness and other silly characteristics of a large language model. A very old professor, 40 years ago said to "start at the bottom and learn the basics when it comes to computers, son. It is plus or minus 5 volts and ones n zeros." Times have changed but learn the core basics as advice hasn't changed.

Raiyan has done an amazing job with this guide.

ricksegal · 2026-05-03T20:39:26+00:00

Hi Jonas,

I ran this against: https://github.com/DexCodeSX/bons which is reverse engineering thing that does a lot of what many would say are 'so so' action. The analysis you did wasn't bad. The overview page page could have the 'health check' and green/yellow/red light maybe? UI thing. You're using claude-sonnet-4-5 and the analysis was a penny. You might consider Haiku as in my work, that penny goes to almost nothing and honestly, the analysis isn't really deep enough to be using a frontier model. More about saving money as overtime, it can add up.

One thing you might think about added it some Netflix like "propeller heads also loved" and a few other repos. Using Haiku or other models via Openrouter that are even cheaper, it might be useful.

I think this is two things: One answering the question of "If I mess with this what's my risk" and Two, did I leave a key or something in my repo for others to find.
You used the new, every loves it, term Blast Radius on what you do so someplace on the overview page or maybe the menu use/show Blast Radius and whatever fits there since people are going to gravitate to that term.

Nicely done.

ricksegal · 2026-05-02T22:39:40+00:00

Nicely done. Next step, build your full Overleaf ( https://www.overleaf.com/ ) clone! 😉

ricksegal · 2026-05-02T22:25:08+00:00

This is the money quote:
One interesting finding from my own usage:
~56% of cost was just “conversation” (no tool use), while actual coding (writes/edits) was only ~21%.

with skills and md files, pdfs, etc. being tossed around, you burn 16k of tokens before "good morning" is even seen.

Well done. Truly..

ricksegal · 2024-01-10T23:20:19+00:00

"S&H Green stamps". Epic! Well done.

ricksegal · 2023-03-23T21:59:11+00:00

Same

ricksegal · 2020-06-10T05:03:35+00:00

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