Cut Lovable credit use on small fixes
The builder likes the finished site but says small fixes were the expensive part. Moving edits to GitHub plus Claude helped.
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Cut Lovable credit use on small fixes
The builder likes the finished site but says small fixes were the expensive part. Moving edits to GitHub plus Claude helped.
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I keep running out of usage or credits with Lovable. Help me work more efficiently without lowering quality. 1) Suggest how to split my current task into small checkpoints I can commit, so a limit pauses me instead of losing work. 2) Tell me which kinds of edits I can do myself or with a cheaper model or mode (plan/chat mode, smaller model). 3) Write a short project brief (stack, key files, rules) I can reuse so I don't spend tokens re-explaining. 4) Give me a checklist to review my plan's usage dashboard and set alerts or a spending cap. Don't start coding yet.
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