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Context pruning: cut LLM tokens without losing quality

calendar_today May 8, 2026 person Jim Allen Wallace domain redis

Your LLM app is burning through tokens, and most of them aren’t doing anything useful. Every retrieved passage, every chunk of conversation history, every piece of boilerplate context costs money, adds latency, and can actually make your model’s outpu…

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