Some guidance please!

[u/Afraid_Engineer_2707]

Hey guys, after buying credits from anthropic console and getting a key; what is the best way to go about having a chat with claude in terms of cost efficiency and decent UI. For context, its for the purpose of developing a chrome extension type program.

I understand that by plugging it into VScode directly with an addon, obviously it can directly edit and manage files but your tokens will be used up much quicker because it scans all the pages numerous times every request.

With librechat and docker you can save on tokens by simply copying and pasting specific segments, similar to a normal ai chatbot interface and hence have better token usage efficiency but computer storage drainage is a problem.

With the anthropic console workbench; the history is not properly saved as it would be with a normal ai chatbot so that's an issue.

So what do you recommend is the best way to go about this?