"Everything is now a token": ML vocabulary is being rewritten by the LLM paradigm
jongranskog · x · 2026-10-14
A practitioner who interviews many candidates observes that ML language is shifting to fit the LLM/transformer paradigm: people now say "token" and "context" in places they previously wouldn't. Even linguistically, everything has become a token — a sign of how deeply the LLM conceptual frame has taken over AI discourse.
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