Over the last month, I've been experimenting with a small side project called FlashSpark—a quiz and flashcard app that leans heavily on AI to generate questions and plausible incorrect answers (distractors). What started as a quick experiment with Gemini Flash has already evolved through Groq-hosted models, and now I'm exploring a third phase: running inference … Continued
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The Context Paradox: Why Less is More for AI Agent Performance
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Developer Productivity
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6 min read
How strategic context restriction dramatically improves AI agent effectiveness. Discover why giving AI agents MORE context often makes them perform WORSE, and how to fix it.
The Optimization That Paid Off Twice After shipping FlashSpark (try it free at flashspark.eddykawira.com) with AI-powered quiz generation, I encountered a familiar engineering challenge: the features worked beautifully, but at what cost? Every time a user generated multiple-choice options for a flashcard, my application called Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite API. At $0.10 per million … Continued