A smarter way to trim large sources for RAG
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TL;DR: We expected sending the full prompt to win every time. It did not. On our controlled benchmark, Trimwise Hybrid at 512 tokens matched the full-prompt answer-pass baseline on GPT-5.4 Mini and GPT-5.6 Luna, while beating it slightly on Nano. Trimwise Lexical got very close too, but at roughly 8 ms instead of Hybrid’s ~52 ms. The bigger finding was not just score: token-level compressors can leave behind broken Markdown, clipped identifiers, damaged JSON, and context fragments that look…
1Key Takeaways
- TL;DR: We expected sending the full prompt to win every time.
- On our controlled benchmark, Trimwise Hybrid at 512 tokens matched the full-prompt answer-pass baseline on GPT-5.4 Mini and GPT-5.6 Luna, while beating it slightly on Nano.
- Trimwise Lexical got very close too, but at roughly 8 ms instead of Hybrid’s ~52 ms.
- The bigger finding was not just score: token-level compressors can leave behind broken Markdown, clipped identifiers, damaged JSON, and context fragments that look….
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Prompt and agent patterns spread fast; staying current saves time and token cost. DEV — Prompt Engineering reports that tL;DR: We expected sending the full prompt to win every time.
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