AnalysisDevelopersAugust 17, 2026

Untouched context beats every compaction technique in 11-preset test

Across 11 presets on an open-source AI tutor, doing nothing to the context beat every compaction technique on recall, cost, and latency at once. The configuration sending the most tokens was the cheapest tested, and the producers' own defaults scored worse than leaving context untouched.

Featured · Louis-François Bouchard

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