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Invisible Terminal Codes Eating Your AI's Context Budget
AI에 전달되는 터미널 색상 코드, 컨텍스트 낭비의 주범
Why it matters
AI developers are inadvertently sending invisible ANSI escape codes to language models alongside terminal output, consuming 20-40% extra context tokens. This overhead reduces effective context window size and increases API costs, but tools like ContextZip can strip these codes automatically, freeing up significant token budget for actual content.
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