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One bug. 212,000 tokens.

The cost is the conversation, not the prompt.

What you'll learn

Why a long chat with files attached costs so much
How selecting and naming a symbol shrinks the context
Why a diff beats a rewritten file

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These are built for a phone

Every short is drawn at full portrait height, the shape a phone already is. Installed, it opens full-bleed with no address bar across the top — and the whole library reads offline.

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