Token Compression for Coding Agents: Fine-Tuned Middleware Cuts Codex Costs by 30%

Coding agents hit a cost wall when tool-call output bloats context windows. A Show HN project tackles this with a fine-tuned compression model that sits between agent output and model input, trimming tokens by 29.6% without breaking KV cache or multi-turn reasoning. The project exposes a pattern: developers are building custom middleware layers to... Weiterlesen