June 2026 - Everything About Programming

Stylized technical illustration showing the word “strawberry” split into three glowing token blocks labeled “str,” “aw,” and “berry,” floating against a dark background with luminous character fragments around them.

June 13, 2026June 13, 2026Agent AI

Byte Pair Encoding — How LLMs Tokenize Text

Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) is the algorithm that turns raw text into tokens — the units every LLM reads, reasons in, and is billed by. This post traces how it …