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The fixed limit on how much text an AI model can process or generate in a single request, which builders have to actively manage.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Half the prompt-engineering work now is just keeping things inside the token budget without losing the instructions that matter."
LORE & ORIGIN
Standard LLM terminology once usage costs and context limits made 'tokens' a resource developers had to consciously budget rather than ignore.
FIRST SEEN
2022
PEAK POPULARITY
2022-2026 (AI Boom Era)
CURRENT STATUS
Mainstream Slang
Related To:Context OverflowContext DebtModel Router
AURA IMPACT ⓘ
+20 AURA
TREND STATUS
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