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The 7x Late Token Penalty: Why Long Context Is Bleeding Your Inference Budget

Every engineering team building autonomous coding agents or complex evaluation loops has spent the past eighteen months treating context length as an unalloyed good. Model providers marketed the expansion from 32k to 128k, 1M, and 2M tokens as a straight climb in capability. The standard pattern ac…

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  1. 2026-11-04 16:29 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    The 7x Late Token Penalty: Why Long Context Is Bleeding Your Inference Budget

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