tiktoken
AssessTools
A tokenizer library for counting and managing LLM tokens.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 4 article(s) of evidence from 3 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 56%.
Evidence (4)
- 2Simon Willison·10/8/2026open_sourcettok 0.4 released
Simon Willison released ttok 0.4, an update to his CLI tool for counting and truncating text by token count. The release fixes a Click warning, updates CI, and adds a --list-models command to show available models. ttok works with uvx for quick use on text piped from the command line.
- 6Hacker News·8/20/2026researchStudy Finds TikTok and Instagram Can Suppress Cognitive Control Networks
A study reported by Hacker News suggests that watching short-form content on TikTok and Instagram is associated with reduced activity in brain regions linked to cognitive control. The report frames this as a neuroscience finding about how highly engaging social video feeds may affect attention and self-regulation.
- 5The New Stack·8/20/2026researchBuilding Token-Efficient Multi-Agent Systems
The article argues that the main cost in production AI agent systems is often not the model itself, but redundant retrievals, repeated prompts, duplicate tool calls, and oversized context windows. It outlines a token-efficient architecture using routing, semantic caching, context budgeting, adaptive retrieval, and model selection to reduce latency and cloud spend without lowering output quality.
- 3Hacker News·8/18/2026researchInternet Slop and AI-Generated Content Crowd Out Quality Online Writing
The author argues that the internet has become less rewarding over time as monetization, short-form content, and especially LLM-generated writing have crowded out thoughtful discussion. They say this makes it harder to find high-quality communities, reduces trust in online content, and weakens collaboration at work when AI outputs replace personal communication.