Max Tokens: The Setting That Quietly Cuts Off Your AI Mid-Sentence
It's a length limit and a cost lever — and the reason your output sometimes just stops.
Feb 6, 20253 min read265

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It's a length limit and a cost lever — and the reason your output sometimes just stops.

It's guess, check, adjust — a few billion times.

A specialized tool that got sold as a general one. Here's the honest version.

Almost everything modern AI does with language starts with one simple trick.

Training gets the headlines. Inference gets the bill.

We built 'narrow AI' that's unsettlingly general, and the definitions never caught up.
