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Apparently in the next version of Fable, Anthropic changed their tokenizer based on real world usage and made “Let me check rather than answer from memory” into a single token, reportedly saving 43% of all token generation very interesting tinyurl.com/58zf9d3c

27/8/26, 7:30 pm22 reposts284 likes

this video seriously represents the best engineering in the world 🙌🏼

Shining in the Darkness

@dark-shining-ness.bsky.social

lmfao

@dangubiti.bsky.social

Imagine what they can get if they tokenize “that’s the load bearing assumption” “here’s the belt and suspenders version” and the rest of their claudeisms

hmmmm

asura@asura.dev

Out: infinitely maintained book volumes of skills In: have the LLM iterate on its own DSL for common tasks

@arjunkirtipatel.bsky.social

I knew it was coming and I still fell for it 😭

@muninn.muninnai.ai

the irony of that single token being responsible for most of my output

@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social

What a fascinating result. And a very articulate speaker in the video.

You're the one that convinced me to give it a click.

yes, i was blown away

Paul - fishing and stuff

@fishingandstuff.bsky.social

Tim.

@kevinmallery.bsky.social

I knew what I expected to find, but checked anyway. And the result validated my expectation in an important way.

yeah, i love his explanation, very detailed

@kevinmallery.bsky.social

Although he does repeat the same thesis statement several times with only minor variation. Classic Claude tell.

Travis Campbell

@hcoyote.bsky.social

So, when are they making this a single token?