LLMs Don’t Read Words. Here’s What They Actually See
Tokens are the units an LLM reads and bills by. How tokenization works, how it fills the context window, and what drives token costs up.
The AI-First Future Starts Here
Founder & CEO, Contrive Solutions
15+ years in software engineering, SaaS, AI automation and enterprise application development
Rohan Jalil founded Contrive Solutions in 2014 and runs it as CEO. He has been building production software since 2010, first PHP and Laravel SaaS platforms, then AI systems: LangGraph agents, retrieval pipelines, n8n automation and voice agents on the OpenAI Realtime API. He holds an MS in Computer Science from LUMS. On Insights he writes about Laravel internals, AI agents and the production failures behind them.
Tokens are the units an LLM reads and bills by. How tokenization works, how it fills the context window, and what drives token costs up.
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