Przemek Mroczek

Przemek Mroczek, senior backend engineer with 13+ years of experience in Ruby on Rails, AI integration, and system architecture. Writing about distributed systems, self-hosting, and building things the right way.

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The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK

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RTK promises dramatic token savings for coding agents, but raw terminal compression is not the same as cheaper, safer, or more accurate software engineering.