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@CycleDecoded: Ridiculous, guys—a wild trick just stormed GitHub trending, directly exploiting a bug in the large model billing system. This thing is called pxpipe (MIT license), a local open-source proxy tool specifically designed to counter Claude Code's billing shock. The principle is absolutely genius: large models charge text tokens by word count, but images are billed by fixed pixels. So it simply takes your long, bloated system prompts, code, and history logs, snaps them into a dense PNG image, and feeds it through the model's vision channel. This is a brutal move—a direct bypass of expensive text billing!

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pxpipe is a local open-source proxy tool that reduces Claude Code bills by approximately 70% by rendering large amounts of text (such as system prompts, code, and logs) into PNG images and feeding them through the large model's vision channel. It exploits the fact that images are billed by pixel rather than by word count. The tool is perfectly compatible with the Fable 5 model, operates with clever automation, but uses lossy compression and is unsuitable for sensitive data.

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