What Is a Token?
You've typed something into Claude Code, ChatGPT, or Gemini more times today than you'd probably admit. You've also, at some point, stared at a bill that came in higher than expected, or watched one p

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Series
This series starts with some fundamental concepts of how generative AI works before delving deeper into Claude Code cost-per-token model, and how managing context can help you get more out of this tool.
You've typed something into Claude Code, ChatGPT, or Gemini more times today than you'd probably admit. You've also, at some point, stared at a bill that came in higher than expected, or watched one p

If you haven't done so already, you might want to read the first post in the series: What Is a Token? You've had a Claude Code session get noticeably worse the longer it ran. Slower, vaguer, forgettin

We will talk about Context Windows a lot in this post, make sure you have read the previous post in the series: Looking Through Claude's Context Window about what Context Windows actually are before s
