context compression

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ARTICLEDEV.to AI·26d ago

How to align coding agents with your plans better than markdown, without burning tokens

This article proposes that the misalignment between users and AI coding agents is a UI problem, not a model problem, suggesting agents should emit HTML instead of Markdown. It introduces using screenshots for context compression, inspired by DeepSeek-OCR, to enable HTML use at every plan stage without increasing token costs.

token efficiency User Interface context compression AI agents

ARTICLEDEV.to AI·4/12/2026

Plug-and-Play Context Compression for Any LLM API — CRISP

CRISP is a Python library that compresses the context sent to LLM APIs to maximize information per token, aiming to reduce costs and latency. It offers a plug-and-play alternative to complex solutions like advanced RAG for addressing the problem of excessive context.

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