alt Hacker News> How claud code works in large codebases?
Simple - It even eats up to 35% five hour usage limit in first prompt even on small projects and then there's 5 minutes time out for you to respond quickly or caches would go bust and you'll pay another 12% to 15% on the next prompt.
The article listed explains how to avoid this. If you naively turn it loose on a big code base, yes, you’ll burn a lot of tokens while it tries to find stuff.