Tokens - Tag - vo.rshttps://vo.rs/tags/tokens/Tokens - Tag - vo.rsHugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000What Is a Token, Really? How LLMs Read, Reason, and Bill Youhttps://vo.rs/story/what-is-a-token-how-llms-read-reason-and-bill-you/<p>Every conversation you have with a language model is quietly measured, chopped, and counted in a unit you almost never see. It is not the word, nor quite the letter. It is the token: the atom of AI text, the thing the model actually reads, the thing your bill is calculated from, and the reason your carefully crafted prompt sometimes behaves in ways that feel slightly arbitrary. Understand tokens and a great deal about how these systems read, reason, and charge suddenly clicks into place.</p>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000