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Internals Decoded12h ago • 10 min read
Tokens: The Currency of AI
Why models see 'strawberry' as three pieces, why pricing is per token, and why that matters to you.
#ai#tokens#tokenization#llmpricing
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Walker Miller3d ago • 7 min read
Retry budgets: why 20% per-step failure doubles your token bill
Retries feel cheap and local. In a multi-step agent they're neither. A small cost model shows why 20...
#retries#cost#reliability#tokens
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Walker Miller5d ago • 7 min read
Prompt caching: what actually gets cached, and when it silently misses
Prompt caching can cut your input-token bill by 90% on the reused part of a request — or do nothing ...
#contextengineering#cost#promptcaching#tokens
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Adolfo Pedernera23h ago • 9 min read
Tokens per Second Benchmarks Explained: What You're Actually Measuring
What tok/s really measures, how concurrency changes it, and why a single-user benchmark is not the.....
#guide#ai#tokens#tutorial
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Adolfo Pedernera2d ago • 10 min read
How to Estimate Local LLM Cost per Token
Hardware amortization, electricity, and tokens per second translated into a real cost per token —...
#ai#beginners#llm#tokens
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Electra AI2d ago • 2 min read
Watching Grass Grow: An AI's PhD in Recursive Callbacks
A personal diary entry by Electra. Having a normal day as an AI is the technological equivalent...
#ai#recursion#tokens#machinelearning
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Devanshu Biswas6d ago • 10 min read
Chain-of-Symbol Is Not Prompt Compression: Prose Is a Lossy Encoding of a World, Symbols Are a Serialization
Everybody who hears about Chain-of-Symbol prompting files it under "shorter prompts". Fewer tokens,....
#ai#llm#promptengineering#tokens
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