Tokenisation: Why 90% of LLM Failures Start Here
The Tokenization Papers: Why 90% of LLM Failures Start Here The Hidden Layer That Controls Everything Every prompt you send to GPT, Claude, or Gemini gets shredded into tokens before the model even “thinks.” These aren’t words — they’re compression artifacts from 2021 web crawls that now dictate: Your API bill (why Hindi costs 17x more than English) Your model’s IQ (why it thinks 9.11 > 9.9) Your RAG accuracy (why $AAPL returns articles about Polish batteries) Tokenization is the silent killer of production AI systems. These papers expose the disasters hiding in plain sight. ...