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François Kiene

@fkienedeveloper
Senior Ruby on Rails engineer (7+ yrs, FinTech). Building llmtrim - a Rust proxy that cuts LLM bills ~66%. Backend + AI integration.
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llmtrim★ 245
Local proxy that compresses your LLM API requests so you pay less, with no change to the answers. Trims wasted tokens from prompts, history, tool output, and code before they're sent: -31% input / -74% output, measured live. Any provider, no extra model calls. Also an MCP server and embeddable library (Rust, Python, Ruby, Kotlin, Swift, JS/TS).
Rustagentic-codingaianthropic
llmtrim-herdr★ 55
💸 Shrink your token bill in herdr: compresses every agent pane's requests (-31% input / -74% output, measured live) and shows the savings on a per-pane badge
PowerShellherdrherdr-pluginllm-proxy
llmtrim-swift★ 0
Swift package for llmtrim: compress LLM API requests to cut tokens, with no extra model calls
Swift

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