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do people use the Caveman, RTK plugins

No, because it is useless.

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080605 (JetBrains, Does Speaking to Agents Like Cavemen Save 65% of Tokens? We Test)

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588755 (The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK )

If it can save 10% of tokens, how is that useless?

My agent didn't like it. Indirection causing noise and failure outweighed the token savings.