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Beyond prompt engineering: the real drivers of token efficiency in enterprise AI

calendar_today June 19, 2026 person Julie Mills domain glean

Prompt trimming helps, but retrieval is what drives real token efficiency in enterprise AI. The post argues the biggest gains come earlier in the pipeline through retrieval quality, context selection, and orchestration design, which improve cost, speed, and quality.

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