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Tokens Are a Crutch: Why Byte Models Win the Long Game

Every language model you've ever used has a secret: before it reads your prompt, a tokenizer chops it into chunks. "Tokenization" becomes ["Token", "ization"]. Hindi becomes confetti. Chinese becomes sawdust. This chopping step is treated as settled infrastructure — as permanent as the transformer…

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  1. 2026-10-09 21:52 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Tokens Are a Crutch: Why Byte Models Win the Long Game

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