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Ishaan's avatar

This is helpful. I’ll try these out.

Vineet Kindra's avatar

This is extremely helpful.

Denis Forget's avatar

Merci!

Ramasubramaniam's avatar

That’s useful will try that.

İbadet Özdemir's avatar

Thank you for sharing. These Claude tips arrived on time 👌

Kenneth's avatar

Can these steps be applied to cowork?

DevWithFlow's avatar

Do /compact and put rules to not read every files !

Taireez Niswander's avatar

Love this! Thank You so much!

Tony Young's avatar

I’m trying to learn how to make use of ollama and local LLMs to do some co-processing for coding/doc review/etc so I’m not burning through tokens. But now I have to read about how this open-claw changes with Claude and having to pay-as-you-go tokens will affect ollama usage too

Preston Eaton's avatar

So helpful, love it

Andrey Gavrilenko's avatar

Another point is to off unused connection! If you don’t use connection to jira - turn it off, for example. It will free space in context.

Tech Lead Shift's avatar

I think your tips are going to save me some money!!

Cam Klockner's avatar

Hi Sabrina,

I want to start by saying how much I genuinely value your work. I'm a regular with your newsletter, podcast, and YouTube content — and I almost always walk away with something useful. That's not nothing.

I should be upfront: I'm not a coder or a technical user. I'm retired, and I've been using Claude — specifically Cowork and Dispatch — to help me write a book and manage personal projects. Cowork genuinely opened my eyes to what's possible, and your content has been part of that journey.

Here's my small ask: would you consider being a little more specific in your titles or descriptions about which version or interface of Claude you're covering? Whether it's Cowork, Dispatch, Chat, coding/terminal use — even a quick label would help less-technical folks like me self-select into the content that's most relevant. Right now I sometimes dive in and realize mid-way it's aimed at a more advanced or code-focused audience.

It's a minor thing, and I raise it only because I'm already a fan and want to get even more out of what you produce.

Thanks for everything you put into this. I look forward to each one.

Cam

eliz hadi's avatar

Sabrina.. I am 55 year old mom from Indonesia and would like to earn 1 k - 5 k a month with digital business.. What do you think is the easiest way? Thank you

RL's avatar

Just curious: isn’t Step 4 equivalent to:

ollama launch claude --model qwen3-coder

If not, what are the differences?

I am personally not a big fan of terminal/machine environment variables when they’re not required, they can have noticeable side effects, especially if you forget that & where you set them

Dan's avatar
Apr 10Edited

I found this super helpful thanks! just added to my claude code (kind of a newbie, ish) and :

Total │ 18,269 │ 6,704 │ 63% cut

really great - thanks so much! now I need to figure out how to reduce additional API costs - currently on the $20 plan but keep having to top up API 1-2x a month....