Compression-First Context Management: Integrating billion-context into Production AI Pipelines
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The Context Window Tax in Multi-Session Development After profiling three months of Claude API usage across our team's IDE integrations, we hit a hard truth: 73% of our token spend went to re-hydrating context that hadn't changed since the previous request. The typical pattern looked like this: # N…
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- 2026-10-19 16:40 · DEV Community — AI
Compression-First Context Management: Integrating billion-context into Production AI Pipelines