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icodestartups.comHow a Made-Up Word Taught Me That LLMs Are More Creative Than We ThinkWhen I first dug into how large language models (LLMs) work, I ran into a recurring explanation: 馃憠 At their core, LLMs are just dealing with tokens. You type something in, it breaks your text into tokens, crunches probabilities, and spits out more t...Aug 22, 2025路4 min read
