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Simon Willison released ttok 1.0, updating the tool to default to the GPT-5/GPT-6 tokenizer instead of the GPT-4 tokenizer.

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“Release: ttok 1.0 I released ttok 0.4 , ran uv tool upgrade ttok , piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer when it should very clearly default to GPT-5/GPT-6 instead!”
Simon Willison's Weblog, 09 Oct 2026, 00:34.

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