I Ran This Open-Source AI Tool on a Messy Codebase and Got 71x Fewer Tokens — Here Is Exactly What Happened

Last Updated on May 4, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Muhammad Hassan Ali Originally published on Towards AI. I Ran This Open-Source AI Tool on a Messy Codebase and Got 71x Fewer Tokens — Here Is Exactly What Happened I have spent months watching developers copy-paste entire files into Claude, burn through context windows, and still get vague answers. Screenshot of Graphify Github Repo by AuthorThe article discusses the capabilities and benefits of Graphify, an open-source AI coding assistant