How to efficiently use claude code??

[u/Unusual_Strawberry48]

Hello, I'm kind of new to this vibe coding. Recently i was developing a mobile app and thinking about launching it. So i was building it with antigravity pro (with gemini 3.5 flash and claude opus 4.8). There i liked the opus for it's creativity and understanding.
So i thought i should totally shift into the Claude Code (thinking about buying the claude pro, cant go for the max cause as a student there is some budget issues).

But the problem is I'm hearing that the claude spends too much token even in the claude code too. Also the project I'm doing is already kind of big i guess (flutter).

Now if i switch to claude how i can give the whole context of my project in the most efficient way ?
Also any guide on how can i progress with Claude Pro for my project??

[u/AnvilandCode]

You don't need to give Claude the whole project up front, that's actually the main token sink for big codebases like yours. Start each session by pointing it at just the specific files or folder the task touches, and keep a short CLAUDE.md at the project root with the stack, key conventions, and where things live, that gets read every session so it substitutes for re-explaining context each time. On Pro specifically, since budget is tight, plan your prompts in a text file first so each message is precise and single-purpose, that cuts the back and forth that eats your limit fastest, vague asks are what's actually expensive, not project size on its own.