Get 5x More Out of Your Claude Subscription

Two people, same Claude plan. One hits the limit by lunch, the other never sees a warning. The difference isn't the plan, it's three habits around caching and context. In this video: Habit 1: Keep the cache warm. Cached input is far cheaper than fresh input, but it expires after about an hour and a few things reset it. Habit 2: Keep sessions short. Every message re-reads the whole conversation, so long chats cost more per message and tend to give worse answers. Habit 3: Hand off around 100K tokens. Summarize, start a fresh session and keep going. Chapters 0:00 Same plan, different limits 0:14 Why every message re-reads the whole conversation 1:09 Habit 1: Keep the cache warm 2:12 How long the cache lasts 3:01 What breaks the cache 3:41 Habit 2: Keep sessions short 4:09 Why long context gives worse answers 5:02 Older-model benchmarks: advertised vs reliable context 6:10 Habit 3: The 100K handoff 6:57 The cheat sheet 7:16 Bonus: sub-agents with smaller models Sources Pricing: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/a... Prompt caching: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/b... Claude Code caching: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/promp... Claude Code costs: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/costs Auto-compact threshold: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/model... Usage limits: https://support.claude.com/en/article... NoLiMa: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05167 RULER: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06654 Context Rot (Chroma): https://trychroma.com/research/contex... Context engineering (Anthropic): https://anthropic.com/engineering/eff... Note: dollar figures are Sonnet 5.5 API prices; how your subscription limit weights cached and fresh tokens is unpublished, and the long-context benchmarks were run on older models. Keep on juicing that AI.