Claude Code Seems Designed to Waste Your Tokens and Time.
So I thought I was assigning Claude a simple task of uploading a hero image from a folder within Cowork to a Wordpress page using the MCP connector. First it tried to compress the hell out of the image... nobody asked it to do that, then it went through all kinds of failed attempts to upload the image using bizarre methodologies. It rewrote the entire page content, despite me explicitly telling it to just edit the block in question.... *three times* in the same chat for other operations which were equally wasteful. It literally took 20 minutes and expended 60% of my tokens to perform this si...