What Is an AI Token? Count Tokens, Context, and Cost
What is an AI token? AI tokens explained: how models split text, why code and language change counts, how to estimate a bill and count Claude tokens.
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What is an AI token? AI tokens explained: how models split text, why code and language change counts, how to estimate a bill and count Claude tokens.
Originally published on tamiz.pro. You added another 2,000 tokens of coding conventions to your system prompt. Your agent now follows the style guide... but it also ignores your bug-fix instructions, hallucinates import paths, and produces function bodies that are 40% longer than necessary.
The default fix for an agent that forgets is to put more in the prompt. It works until it doesn't, and the way it fails is quiet: unconditional context that costs every turn and gets less relevant as it grows.
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