https://open.substack.com/pub/prosperinai/p/stop-hitting-claude-usage-limits?r=7y10ys&utm_medium=ios Found this great post on Substack by Ilia Katelin on how Claude operates under the hood and how it’ll processes tokens. The post starts with very basic prompting strategies then goes deeper into to settings and eventually on how to configure Claude files. We learn many of these in this community and through the ICM system, but there are some great nuggets here. One of my big takeaways for me is that Claude uses less tokens to ingest a document via a connector (eg Google Drive) vs dropping it into the context window itself. 🤯 Hope this brings value!

It’s not: “we cleaned files” It’s: “we built a system that keeps itself clean.” The first month I was just trying to get my head around the Foundation, Implementation and understand what is happening. Foundation already gave me a Content Provider style architecture, along with the animation and website builder, i intuitively and with both ChatGPT and Claude I started by implementing Jake's structure. I watched YouTube videos as well that gave me other insights (and validated that Jake's course is the only place that i see that talks about ICM and Architecture and such). Either way, I signed up for premium yesterday, and found that there was much more to complement the Foundation. As Jake suggested, I slowly took each on of the Vault items, and explored with Claude - how is our architecture compared to GitHub repos (which I tapped into some of the members GitHub repos and made Claude check itself against those insights - super thank you Community!!). It pointed out a few times that our architecture is more mature, though it always found 1 or 2 items that could improve its flow. We had a glitch this morning when I prompted the execution of today's schedule with all the items to post, create and monitor, which the Orchestrator and Operator (me) had to dissect what it did and ensure it won't follow that course again, and whether such a flow is efficient both Token costs and Workflow. It found ways to optimize - extracted what it found useful from the Vault, informed that skills that mention in Vault are skills we already captured (among others). My very first project with Jake - text to video animation has been improving on its own outside my Brand Sandbox. And as I closed my Claude after uploading the content it had structured neatly for me in an HTML file with EVERYTHING that i needed for the content posting, I had it summarize its work - which I hope this help if you read this far (thank you for reading my stuff:)) - Three-day architecture delta (Apr 30 → May 3)

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