A developer shares a practical trick to prevent Claude Code from burning through tokens uncontrollably: adding a PreToolUse hook with a 30-second sleep delay before every write or edit operation. This creates intentional pauses that allow the user to review and intervene before Claude pursues a wrong approach. The hook is configured per-project in VS Code via `.claude/settings.local.json`. The author also hints at future work to build an adaptive system that progressively slows down Claude Code based on token usage.
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