What If You Compressed Your Prompts Into Chinese Emoji? (A Token-Saving Thought Experiment)

What If You Compressed Your Prompts Into Chinese Emoji? (A Token-Saving Thought Experiment) Or: what happens when a frustrated developer thinks too hard about token costs I keep hitting token limits. Not occasionally — consistently. Every time I think Ive optimized enough, the bill creeps up or the context window fills mid-task. So I started thinking about creative ways to cut token usage. What started as a reasonable question turned into something genuinely unhinged. The Observation Somewhere i