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June 19, 2026
Smoower.Minified: The .NET Boilerplate Tax Is Paid in Tokens
I kept watching Claude burn output tokens writing the same verbose C# scaffolding over and over. Smoower.Minified is a set of C# aliases that cut the token cost of generated .NET roughly in half, with identical compiled IL. This is version 0.1.
June 20, 2026Most People Watch the Wrong Tokens
Everyone obsesses over input tokens and prompt caching. The output side is where the money and the wall-clock time actually go, and it is the side almost nobody tries to shrink. Here is how I tested whether Smoower.Minified really moves that needle, and the swaps that turned out to save nothing.