There are only four places your tokens go, and four little-known techniques built to plug them. Here is what each one does, which ones actually work, and how to use all four ideas today.
● Beginner
You have probably had this moment. You are deep into something with an AI assistant, the work is going well, and then you glance at your usage. It has climbed somewhere you did not expect.
So you go looking for advice, and everyone gives you the same useless sentence. Use fewer tokens.
Right. Where?
Here is what almost nobody explains. There are only four places your tokens go. Four. And over the past year, four separate tools have been built to attack them, one each. They have peculiar names: RTK, Headroom, Caveman, and Ponytail. A router called 9Router bundles all four together, which is how most people who have heard of them heard of them.
Most people have not heard of them.