Tokens & Tokenization: Why AI "Counts" Words Weirdly
You paste a paragraph into ChatGPT or Claude, hit enter, and somewhere a meter is ticking. Not a word count. Not a character count. Something else — "tokens" — and the number never quite matches what
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Brian · AI News
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Token burn is the real AI coding tax. I log cost per merged PR so a flashy agent that wastes retries shows up in the budget before the demo does.