When you should not trim logs too aggressively before asking AI for help

Shorter prompts are usually better, but not always. Some failures depend on the surrounding context: package version conflicts, transitive dependency problems, environment-specific behavior, serializer chains, or integration boundaries where the wrapper is part of the cause.

The right goal is not maximum compression. The right goal is minimum useful context. If trimming removes the lines that change the diagnosis, the prompt becomes neat but less accurate.