My sweet spot at the moment is Claude Desktop with mcp servers for editing and aider --watch for quick fixes. Claude Code uses way, way, way too many tokens on the large project i work most on.
> Claude Code uses way, way, way too many tokens on the large project i work most on.
That's a very fair critique, and it makes the pay-as-you-go pricing model (vs. one of their subscription options) a completely unrealistic option for doing anything serious with Claude Code.
