tokencost VS curriculum

Library for Estimating Token Costs

I really appreciate your engagement here and think it has great value on a personal level, but the length and claims tend to hide two very obvious, straightforward things:

1. They only support GPT3.5 and GPT4.0. Note here: [1], and that gpt-4o would get swallowed into gpt-4-0613.

2. This will lead to massive, significant, embarrassingly large error in calculations. Tokenizers are not mostly the same, within 10% error.

1. responsive to ex. "It's not just C100K though. It is for a few models [0]",

The link is to Tiktoken, OpenAI's tokenization library. There are literally more than GPT3.5 and GPT4.0 there, but they're just OpenAI's models, no one else's, none of the others in the long list in their documentation, and certainly not 400.

every single one of them is for a deprecated model, not served anymore, except c100k and o200k. As described above and shown in [1], their own code kneecaps the o200k and will use c100k"

2. Let me know what you'd want to see if you're curious the 30%+ error thing. I don't want to go to the trouble to guess at a test suite, then run one, that would make you confident you need to revise a prior that there's only +/- 10% difference between arbitrary tokenizers. I will almost assuredly choose one that isn't comprehensive enough, with your input.

For context, I run about 20 unit tests, for each of the big 5 providers, with the same prompts, to capture their input and output token counts to make sure I'm billing accurately.

Just to save you time, you won't be able to talk me down to "eh, good enough!" --- It *matters*, if it didn't, they'd be much more up front about the truth. Every single sign around the library is absolutely damning, and triangulates somewhere between lying and naivete. From the marketing claiming 400+, to the complete lack of note of these extreme* caveats in any documentation, the only thing being what I understand is a warning log.

[1] https://github.com/AgentOps-AI/tokencost/blob/e1d52dbaa3ada2...

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So I have been continuing to code whilst looking for my first Apprenticeship (Alternance, here in France) job as a software dev, as I have said previously I have been continuing following The Odin Project curriculum, but have recently had my focus switched onto a personal side-project that I had been toying with whilst I was studying at Ada Tech School, a website where people could curate their own collection of recipes from a variety of different, well known, recipe/cooking websites.

I have started The Odin Project so a lot of the early blogs will be relatively simple, as we are going over the basic of basics (in my opinion of course). I've decided to go through everything again in order to solidify my foundation before I continue finishing the side projects I've started but never finished.

The landing page was built using HTML/CSS and some Javascript. How have I been learning this? A mix of AI (Claude, ChatGPT) and learning how to create a site by going through the foundational section of The Odin Project. I will also continue to go through this course and the React portion.

There were frustrations and compromises and victories, but little by little I can see my progress, and I still enjoy the act of overcoming these new challenges and learning more and more. Each day is another little lesson. I look forward to continuing with The Odin Project and the next challenges, but in the meantime I must return to looking for my alternance (apprenticeship) and maybe a small personal project before launching into the next part of the curriculum.

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