Anthropic API - Rate limit being burned through insanely fast - what am I doing wrong?

I’m using the Anthropic API in ClaudeDev. I am running it on a 256 line code app to add some small new functionalities. I just started with ClaudeDev last night and within thirty minutes I had reached my daily rate limit (Tier 1 1m tokens).

My prompts were small. e.g. “Add a load button to the main window so the user can load their saved formatting JSON file. Make sure the user does not have to load the formatting every time they launch the app.” And “that didn’t work, provide me with your plan to implement this and then proceed.”

I might have had 6 or 7 prompts like this with ClaudeDev successfully implementing two small features to the existing code…..and then my 1m tokens were maxed out. Most of the token usage seems to be coming from output tokens but for such small implementations how are they being used up so quickly? Could ClaudeDev be rewriting the whole code for each edit/implementation instead of just adding to/editing the code that has to do with my prompt?

My code is approximately 4,200 tokens so I am not sure why I have so many input tokens.

I know I should break it down into a more modular app but this was just a quick efficiency app for work that I was whipping off.

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