Tokens can be Pointers to “Ontic Payloads”

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I often hear FANG employees discussing LLM budgets and token usage.</p> <p>So, a token is like a payment, right? Why don't they just say

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>We're obsessed with raw tokens per second. Every hardware post leads with it. Every quantization comparison is ranked by it. It's the one number

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I build context/harness optimization tooling, so provider-side serialization quirks actually matter to me. If you're optimizing over prompts, you