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Ask HN: How are you controlling Token Costs?

I have been using LLMs & Coding Agent since early 2024. A large problem with Coding Agents & LLMs in general is context compression.To give you some numbers, when I analysed my own sessions across Claude Code, Codex & Sakana, I found that most of my agents spent >90% of time re reading context and upon further investigation into the markdowns it was reading, I have a hand-wavy...

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