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Stop Your AI Coding CLI From Wasting Tokens on “Hi” and “Thanks”

QAInsights published a blog post introducing Pleasantries, a small Python script that prevents AI coding command-line interfaces from wasting tokens on casual greetings like 'hi', 'ok', or 'thank you' by intercepting and filtering such inputs before they trigger a full model call.

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In this blog post, we will see how a small Python script called Pleasantries can stop your AI coding CLI from burning a full model call every time you type “hi”, “ok”, or “thank you”. ...

The post Stop Your AI Coding CLI From Wasting Tokens on “Hi” and “Thanks” appeared first on QAInsights.

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