'Burning tokens' in 2026 means something very different from 2016
prajdabre · x · 2026-10-03
Researcher prajdabre quips that "burning tokens" meant running costly NLP experiments in 2016, but in the LLM era it literally means paying for inference tokens — same words, flipped meaning.
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