Context Quality Matters More Than Token Quantity
ZainHasan6 · x · 2026-07-18
Addressing the trend of "consuming massive amounts of tokens," the author argues that the key isn't about how many tokens you stuff into your context window, but rather how much effective contextual information those tokens actually carry. This highlights the importance of information density in prompt engineering.
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