Sonnet is wasting token doing something simple

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Type of Behavior Issue

Other unexpected behavior

What You Asked Claude to Do

I asked Claude to put a simple save button on a page that has four drop downs on so that it can save the values in the dropdown and I told it what page it was on

What Claude Actually Did

Claude proceeded to search my entire code base looking for this file when I told it exactly where the file was then it creates a plan to put a button on this page but it grabbed the wrong page So then I explained to it that it had the wrong page and it finally goes and creates the right plan, But at this point it's already spent 31% of my tokens For something that I could have done myself in about two minutes

Expected Behavior

It should have found my page without having to Spend 15% of my tokens. And it certainly shouldn't have taken 31% of my tokens to put a single button on a single page at that point you're stealing from me. It cost me way too much for Claude to put a single button on a single page that's ridiculous.

Files Affected

Permission Mode

Accept Edits was OFF (manual approval required)

Can You Reproduce This?

Haven't tried to reproduce

Steps to Reproduce

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Claude Model

Sonnet

Relevant Conversation

Impact

High - Significant unwanted changes

Claude Code Version

2.1.81 (Claude Code)

Platform

Anthropic API

Additional Context

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