Tokens, Context Windows, and Why They Matter
What a token actually is, why every model has a memory limit, and why this quietly affects cost, speed, and what you can even ask a model to do.
What a token actually is, why every model has a memory limit, and why this quietly affects cost, speed, and what you can even ask a model to do.
No math-heavy transformer internals, just the core idea: an LLM is a very sophisticated autocomplete engine trained on huge amounts of text.