Render prompts as images to drastically save tokens
DanWahlin · x · 2026-08-27
A novel prompt compression trick involves rendering text as an image before sending it to the model. Discovered during a discussion on compression techniques, this approach suggests significant token savings by sending visual representations of text instead of raw input.
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