I Built a Compression Algorithm That Beats Gzip. I Have an A+ Cert.

How a networking student ended up writing Rust, beating industry-standard compression, and learning more about computers than any classroom taught me. The Problem That Started Everything I was messing around with LLM APIs. Claude, GPT, the usual. And I kept hitting the same wall: context windows cost money. Every token you send costs. Every token the model reads costs. If you're building anything serious on top of these APIs -- agents, memory systems, anything that needs conversation history -...