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I Ran This Open-Source AI Tool on a Messy Codebase and Got 71x Fewer Tokens — Here Is Exactly What Happened
Last Updated on May 4, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Muhammad Hassan Ali Originally published on Towards AI. I Ran This Open-Source AI Tool on a Messy Codebase and Got 71x Fewer Tokens — Here Is Exactly What Happened I have spent months watching developers copy-paste entire files into Claude, burn through context windows, and still get vague answers. Screenshot…