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2026-09-07
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Query-Aware Code Compression for LLMs: 1.3M LOC to 1,500 Lines in 2.8s
A developer introduced CodeShrink, a query-aware code compression tool that uses Tree-sitter ASTs to reduce a 1.29M LOC codebase to about 1,500 lines in 2.8 seconds for LLM queries. The tool extracts …