Caveman Claude - fewer words, same fix 🪨

Just came across this and it made me laugh.

Someone built a Claude Code plugin that rewrites all of Claude's responses in caveman-speak. "Why use many token when few token do trick."

The actual result? It cuts output tokens by about 75% while keeping all the technical detail intact. There's a companion tool that compresses your memory files too, saving another 45% on input tokens.

Before: "The reason your React component is re-rendering is likely because you're creating a new object reference on each render cycle. When you pass an inline object as a prop, React's shallow comparison sees it as a different object every time, which triggers a re-render. I'd recommend using useMemo to memoize the object."

After: "New object ref each render. Inline object prop = new ref = re-render. Wrap in useMemo."

Same fix. Quarter of the words.

It's already got 5.5k stars on GitHub in 3 days, so clearly it's struck a nerve. One-line install if you want to try it.

Not for me personally (I like my Claude verbose and chatty), but if you're burning through tokens on tasks, this is a funny and genuinely useful hack.

Link: https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman

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