c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · sanitation@lemmy.today · 2 Sep 2026 23:30

New compression technique

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@SorryQuick@lemmy.ca · 3 Sep 2026

Saves input tokens and uses more output because of OCR, and output is priced way higher.

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- @Rooster326@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026
  
  It’s an accounting trick. It uses a different budget…
  
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- @boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 Sep 2026 · edited
  
  Also if you’re doing anything multi-prompt, that output is re-used as (luckily cached) input tokens for the next prompt anyway lol
  
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