Stream: large-data

Topic: Use less LLM tokens with toon


view this post on Zulip Oliver Bertuch (Oct 29 2025 at 09:14):

TIL about https://github.com/johannschopplich/toon
Should Dataverse have an exporter for it?

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin ๐Ÿš€ (Oct 29 2025 at 11:41):

Are you making fun of me for bringing up KSON the other day? I see the same xkcd cartoon in the README. :smile:

I assume not. :smile: I like that there's a Java port!

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin ๐Ÿš€ (Oct 29 2025 at 11:42):

The initial commit was 7 days ago. Fresh!

view this post on Zulip Oliver Bertuch (Oct 29 2025 at 11:48):

I'm not making fun of anyone! Especially not you!

view this post on Zulip Oliver Bertuch (Oct 29 2025 at 11:48):

I do get the idea of reducing input token usage to fit more content into the window and they do have the numbers to prove their claims.

view this post on Zulip Oliver Bertuch (Oct 29 2025 at 11:51):

It's not just pure esthetics, but serves a technical purpose. To me, that sounds like valid reasons to implement something.

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin ๐Ÿš€ (Oct 29 2025 at 13:30):

Yeah. Maybe you could post something at #community > MCP (Model Context Protocol). Seems related.


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