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A developer has created a pipeline using Obsidian and Claude Code to ingest YouTube transcripts, PDFs, and URLs into a cross-linked personal knowledge base, preventing knowledge loss from passive cont…

An engineer building a document-processing AI agent discovered that processing a 2MB PDF inline consumed 97,354 input tokens, costing $0.29 per document at Claude Sonnet 4-6 pricing. By offloading fil…