Name: We Cut 94% of AI Coding Tokens With a Local Code Index - Rajkumar Sakthivel, Tesco
Uploaded: 2026-06-28
Description: Every AI coding tool we tried had the same assumption: send as much context as possible. In our production codebase, that meant sending 45,000 tokens per query — even when only ~5,000 were actually useful. We didn’t notice how inefficient this was until we saw the cost and latency impact. We tried improving prompts and

Why it matters

Every AI coding tool we tried had the same assumption: send as much context as possible. In our production codebase, that meant sending 45,000 tokens per query — even when only ~5,000 were actually useful. We didn’t notice how inefficient this was until we saw the cost and latency impact. We tried improving prompts and

My takeaway: We Cut 94% of AI Coding Tokens With a Local Code Index - Rajkumar Sakthivel, Tesco is an enterprise-adoption signal. The practical read is to watch how deployment scale, data boundaries, operational ownership, and platform controls change as AI moves out of experiments.