hidden context costs

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Thinking tokens represent a form of hidden context cost: they're consumed within the context window but don't produce useful output, only internal deliberation loops. This is a context efficiency fail

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model selection strategy 2 tool selection impact 1 token efficiency optimization 1 token efficiency 1 prompt engineering as band aid 1 performance optimization 1 multi agent orchestration 1 inference optimization 1 context window optimization 1

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@IntuitMachine: GLM 5.2 trades off smaller LLM size for a lot more thinking tokens. It's a g... example_of

@Hesamation: bro Claude Code absolutely DESTROYS YOUR BUDGET. it burns 5.6× more tokens an... example_of

The efficiency gap reveals that tools have opaque internal context management strategies that aren't visible to users but create massive cost variance.

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