Summarize Locally, Send Less: A Mobile LLM Pattern for Free-Tier APIs
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Your mobile AI assistant has been chatting for ten minutes. Every turn, the client re-sends the entire conversation history to the server, and you have not noticed because the UI stays smooth. Then the error appears: quota exhausted. You check the logs and find that 80% of your token spend was repe…
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- 2026-09-04 11:00 · DEV Community — AI
Summarize Locally, Send Less: A Mobile LLM Pattern for Free-Tier APIs