Express your experience in fewer than 3 dozen tokens
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.
Inside Design Tokens: Put your Tokens on a Scale
Ever worked with a set of design tokens that are super inconsistent and hardly distinguishable? Perhaps a wrong scale? This article explains the available scales, their problems and what to use them for.
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.
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.
tokens are getting more expensive
"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze
JuliusBrussee/caveman
🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman
Procedural Tokens — encoding design decisions
Most design tokens hold a value. The interesting ones hold a rule. A live walk from static refs to procedural tokens.
Design Tokens Format Module 2025.10
This document describes the technical specification for a file format to exchange design tokens between different tools.
ZTA: Zero Token Architecture - Kelsey Hightower | PlatformCon 2026
Why Things Like TypeSafe AI Don't Interest Me
A handful of people showed up in the comments asking 'have you tried TypeSafe?'. I use that as a hook to lay out my rule about new AI tools, actually investigate the case, and explain why I don't waste time optimizing token spend.
Actual Computer › Introducing toks
Actual Computer's first public software release: toks, the best tokenizer on earth. The exact same ids as Hugging Face tokenizers, 13x to 151x faster on one CPU core.
Inside Design Tokens: The Three Class Token Society
Design tokens are often grouped based on their phenomenal reference sequence. From basic, over semantic to component tokens. This article compares this organization with a model based architecture and figures out the advantages and disadvantages.
A broken pricing paradigm
A token is not a fixed unit of cost Variance in usage creates an interconnected pricing and scaling issue Anjali Shrivastava anjali.shrivastava99@gmail.com | @anjali_shriva THIS ESSAY IS NOW LIVE! A token is not a fixed unit of cost PART I: High variance in AI demand breaks unit economics and re...
something that has come up fairly recently with LLMs - for coding, specifically - is that it’s become a lot easier to burn stupefying amounts of tokens on stuff very fast, with agents running 24/7 or managing more agents (see: Yegge’s Gas Town) even with low inference costs that adds up in a hurry
Jesse Felder
‘While some cling to the promise of an AI “revolution,” the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck. These developments also suggest that the economics of replacing human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied.’ fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-…
