Most Developers Use LLMs Without Understanding Tokens Most people think the magic of LLMs comes from the model itself. But the real foundation of every LLM is something much simpler: Tokens. Everything an AI model does begins with tokens. • prompts become tokens • tokens become numbers • models learn patterns between tokens • those patterns generate intelligence Understanding tokens changes how you design prompts, control costs, and build better AI systems. I explored this concept deeply in this article: buildwithclarity.hashnode.dev/tokens-intelligence…