The Non-English Token Tax — Korean Costs 1.4x, Measured
I tokenized 285 of my posts across ko/ja/en/zh with three tokenizers. Korean ran 1.38x English tokens, Japanese 1.34x. The non-English token tax, measured.
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Don't Trust the Salt — Multilingual LLM Guardrail Gaps
An analysis of how LLM guardrails fail in multilingual environments. We examine the structural issues causing safety verification failures in non-English languages and practical countermeasures.
Overcoming AdSense "Low Value Content" Rejection
A hands-on guide to diagnosing and fixing the technical issues behind AdSense rejections on a multilingual Astro blog—ads.txt conflicts, 996 ghost pages, and sitewide sitemap 404s.