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2026-04-08 16:20
I Benchmarked the Viral "Caveman" Prompt to Save LLM Tokens. Then My 6-Line Version Beat It.
Last week, an open-source project called caveman promised to save 75% on LLM tokens by making AI talk like a caveman — dropping filler words, skipping pleasantries, keeping only technical substance. The repository collected 4,000 stars on GitHub in days. Developers shared it as a breakthrough in token efficiency.
The claim, it turns out, is both true and misleading. When I benchmarked the caveman...