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Your LLM Has Never Read a Word: Tokenization Explained for Developers
Community description: You type a sentence into ChatGPT and it looks like normal English. The model doesn't see it that...
Dev.to | Sep 19, 2026 | MANGESH MANDLIK
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When I first started learning how LLMs work, I kept hearing terms like tokens, context windows, and token limits. In practice, tokens are usually pieces of words. More output tokens increase generation costs.
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