Smart Context Wins: How Senior Engineers Maximize AI Efficiency

Token exhaustion is fundamentally about inefficiency, not overuse—as AI-assisted development becomes mainstream, managing context wisely has become as critical as cloud cost optimization. Practical tools like RTK, Lean-CTX, and repository indexers eliminate unnecessary context overhead, reducing token consumption by 60-90% for typical workflows. This shift marks a new engineering discipline: making AI coding economically sustainable at organizational scale.