Token Efficiency

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Engineering28 min read

The Twelve Layers of LLM Cost: Why One Optimization Is Never Enough

Context bloat is a reasoning failure, not just a bill — and a compounding stack from Code Mode to a fine-tuning flywheel cuts agent tokens by ~99.8% while restoring model performance.

  • Agents
  • Llm Ops
  • Token Efficiency
  • Telemetry
  • Security