# @om_patel5: I taught Claude to talk like a caveman to use 75% less tokens

Source: https://firefly.social/post/x/2040279104885314001
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Submitted by misha on 2026-04-04 UTC, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

I taught Claude to talk like a caveman to use 75% less tokens.

normal claude: ~180 tokens for a web search task

caveman claude: ~45 tokens for the same task

"I executed the web search tool" = 8 tokens
caveman version: "Tool work" = 2 tokens

every single grunt swap saves 6-10

## Comments

**@girishkumar**: Good article for fun