Context Is Not "More Context"

An iteration that touched two files was burning ~350,000 tokens - not because the task was big, but because whoever executed it went looking around the repository first. What fixed it was not more context. It was writing down which context, once, and forbidding the rest. 👋 Hi, I'm Anton - a software engineer working mostly in PHP/Symfony and Go. Most of what I write about comes out of carving a…