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by seanhunter 542 days ago
Why not call them constants then?

Tokens is a really terrible name given the strong expectation that anyone with a computer science background has around the meaning of "token".

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Yeah... auth tokens, resource tokens, rate limiting tokens, monetary tokens, LLM tokens, parser tokens, etc... you might as well name it "thing". It's about as bad as "node".