Context & Compression

Context & Compression: Making the prompt smaller before anyone bills you for it. 26 field notes from the engineers shipping Nadir's LLM routing layer.

Posts in Context & Compression

• The Pixel Loophole (2026-08-05)
• Forget the Thinking (2026-10-25)
• Read It Once (2026-10-09)
• One Call, Sixteen Answers (2026-09-25)
• Stop. Sending. Sentences. (2026-09-16)
• Five Words or Less (2026-09-11)
• The Missing L2 (2026-09-06)
• Shorter Prompt, Longer Bill (2026-09-01)
• The Linguist's Discount (2026-08-21)
• The RULER Gap (2026-08-20)
• Delete What It Already Read (2026-08-10)
• The Context Garbage Collector (2026-08-01)
• The Readability Tax (2026-07-31)
• The Prompt-Tuning Tax (2026-07-28)
• The Punctuation Tax (2026-07-26)
• Can You Speed Up Text? (2026-07-24)
• Skills Are Just Compression (2026-07-15)
• Context Engineering Is Not Prompt Engineering (2026-07-10)
• Context Rot (2026-07-02)
• $1.00 a Query, or $0.007 (2026-06-26)
• The JSON Tax (2026-06-23)
• The Expensive Half (2026-06-22)
• Twenty Chunks, Three Read (2026-06-21)
• System Prompt Bloat (2026-06-19)
• LLMLingua in an Afternoon (2026-06-15)
• Sixty-Nine Percent System Prompt (2026-05-28)

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