6 Battle-Tested LangGraph Techniques to Shrink 25k → 11k Context (And Save Your LLM)

Stop Feeding the Token Monster – 6 Battle-Tested Moves to Shrink 25k → 11k Context with LangGraph (and Keep Your LLM Sane) “The longer my prompt, the dumber my model.” If that sentence ever crossed your mind at 2 a.m. while staring at a $4 invoice for 128 k tokens, welcome home. This post is the field manual I wish I had that night. The Story That Started With “Reward Hacking” Last week my manager pinged me on Slack: “Quick task: summarize every flavor of reward hacking in RLHF. Deck due tomorrow.” I dumped 200 pages of papers into Claude-3.5 …