{"slug": "stop-your-ai-coding-cli-from-wasting-tokens-on-hi-and-thanks", "title": "Stop Your AI Coding CLI From Wasting Tokens on “Hi” and “Thanks”", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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”. ...\n\nThe post [Stop Your AI Coding CLI From Wasting Tokens on “Hi” and “Thanks”](https://qainsights.com/stop-your-ai-coding-cli-from-wasting-tokens-on-hi-and-thanks/) appeared first on [QAInsights](https://qainsights.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-your-ai-coding-cli-from-wasting-tokens-on-hi-and-thanks", "canonical_source": "https://qainsights.com/stop-your-ai-coding-cli-from-wasting-tokens-on-hi-and-thanks/", "published_at": "2026-08-05 01:52:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-05 02:10:50.188526+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["QAInsights", "Pleasantries"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-your-ai-coding-cli-from-wasting-tokens-on-hi-and-thanks", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-your-ai-coding-cli-from-wasting-tokens-on-hi-and-thanks.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-your-ai-coding-cli-from-wasting-tokens-on-hi-and-thanks.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-your-ai-coding-cli-from-wasting-tokens-on-hi-and-thanks.jsonld"}}