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