Stop feeding raw HTML to your LLMs (Solving the Agentic Token Tax)

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

If you are building autonomous AI agents that interact with the web, you have almost certainly hit the same architectural wall we did: The Token Tax. The standard pipeline for web-enabled agents right now is incredibly inefficient. An agent needs context from a webpage, so the developer uses a standard HTTP scraper to pull the DOM, maybe converts it to markdown, and dumps the entire thing into the LLM's context window.