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Token Budget Negotiator

DEV.to AIΒ·April 27, 2026

Token Budget Negotiator is a tool that optimizes LLM prompts by systematically identifying and removing non-essential sections. It uses a greedy ablation loop and an LLM judge to reduce prompt length, maintaining quality while hitting target cost savings.

prompt-engineeringEfficiencyCost OptimizationLLM
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