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How We Achieved a 12.2x Token Reduction on Codebase Context

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When feeding codebase context into LLMs, bigger context windows have created sloppy habits. Handing 150k tokens of raw source files to Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o degrades recall accuracy and costs serious money when run in automated agent loops. We built TokenCap to solve this locally. In recent b…

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  1. 2026-09-27 17:54 · DEV Community — AI
    How We Achieved a 12.2x Token Reduction on Codebase Context

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