Why people chasing after useless token saving plugins and ignoring real solution

A developer claims that token-saving plugins like RTK and Ponytail are ineffective, publishing benchmarks showing their agent harness achieves 80% real token savings on long-horizon tasks, while the plugins offer minimal or negative improvements. The author questions why the community ignores these results in favor of inferior solutions.

I wrote a blog yesterday on how useless RTK and Ponytail are on real coding tasks. And published my agent harness long-horizon task benchmarks on 80% real token saving. I just want to know why people just ignore the fact those pulgins are useless and don't care about the real savings? full reports are on my repo: https://github.com/Tura-AI/tura Arm n Harness score Total tokens Modeled cost Rounds Duration No plugin 2 78.85% 6.660M $5.281946 62.5 895s Ponytail 2 80.77% -7.56% -8.87% -9.60% +13.51% RTK 2 76.92% +13.20% +7.18% +44.00% +40.69% Configuration Passes Pass rate Observed tokens Rounds Estimated cost Tura Balanced High 48/60 80.0% 229,695,477 2,017 $221.138 Tura Direct High 39/60 65.0% 75,108,167 969 $99.620 Codex CLI Medium 38/60 63.3% 333,538,349 3,140 $257.173 Codex CLI High 36/60 60.0% 455,742,296 6,074 $327.483 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937781 Points: 1 Comments: 0