Long AI coding chats get expensive for a simple reason: every turn resends
the whole conversation, so turn 30 costs far more than turn 3.
I built CodeCook to fix that. It's a free, MIT-licensed VS Code extension
(disclosure: I'm the author). What it does
In one long session, a single turn went from about 800k to about 15k tokens.
That's a best case, not an average, so I'm testing real billed cost next.
Try it: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=makayis.codecook I'd love feedback on what breaks or what's missing.
source & further reading
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