Most of us use AI coding tools in a very normal way.

We paste an error, ask for a fix, paste a file, ask again, run a command, paste the output, and keep going. After some time, we get a message saying something like you are out of tokens or you have reached your message limit.

Most of the time, the reason is tokens.

What is a token?

A token is a small piece of text the model reads or writes.