tokens
2 posts — newest first.
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What a Token Actually Is, and Why a UUID Costs 24 of Them
I built a BPE tokenizer from scratch, then measured what JSON, UUIDs, code and other languages really cost. The len/4 estimate was off by up to 70%.
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Token FinOps: the third budget your agents are spending
Error budgets, context budgets — agents add a third: dollars. Agent tasks burn 5–30× chatbot tokens, and cost-per-token is the wrong metric.