Thoughts on Tokens

Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now

Is security spending more tokens than your attacker?

tokens are getting more expensive

"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze

The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization

Highlights the desire to replace tokenization with a general method that better leverages compute and data. We'll see tokenization's fragility and review the Byte Latent Transformer arch.

A gentle introduction to digital tokens – Bits on Blocks

A gentle introduction to digital tokens for business people and students. One of the most popular articles on the Bits on Blocks blog.

What's Driving Token Prices? January 14, 2026

This week on What’s Driving Token Prices, Katie Talati examines Zcash governance issues, Polygon’s payments shift, and planned changes at Pump.fun.

Inside Design Tokens: Token Specification

Design tokens become scalable when they are replicable. A token specification is a formula for achieving design tokens scalability and tools interoperability.

Inside Design Tokens: The Hidden Knowledge

Tokens contain a lot of information and even more the relationship between tokens. Making sense of this information is the hidden knowledge living within tokens. Unlocking this knowledge is the next evolution step for design tokens.

Perspective: AI demand is inflated, and only Anthropic is being realistic

The main usage metric for artificial intelligence, called tokens, looks explosive on paper, but it may be significantly overstated.

Inside Design Tokens: Definitions & Traits

Over the past three years, I’ve researched design tokens for usage in Theemo and I’m sharing my discoveries in this article series.

AI is Cheap Building It Isn't

Cheaper Tokens Meet an Expensive Reality

100 years of whatever this will be

What if all these weird tech trends actually add up to something? Last time, we explored why various bits of trendy technology are, in my o...

designtxt/at-design-tokens

Your Design Tokens, in the Atmosphere

Tokenization Tax 2026: LLM Tokenizer Comparison | ellamind

A measurement study of 20 LLM tokenizers across 12 languages and 21 kinds of text. On German, Claude 4.7+ needs 2.01x the tokens of the OpenAI reference, and Cohere Command A+ the fewest.