Question: I spent around $35-$40 using aider-chat, how can we minimize the cost?

[al3rez]

Issue

I love aider-chat, I've been using it for a while (I stopped using Cursor.sh because it didn't work as expected in Windows and Linux) so I had to find an alternative which I ended up with aider-chat, but after working with it for a while my OpenAI usage got up pretty quickly compared to $20/month from Cursor.sh, I pretty much I spent $40 for a few days which isn't a sustainable model, what can I do to improve the token usage? Also how can I ask questions for the whole code base without adding each file manually?

Version and model info

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