Module 02 · 10 min
LLMs, prompts and tokens
prompt · token · input vs output tokens · system instructions · context · context window · inference
01 · Scenario
“It's a five-word question. How expensive can it be?”
Meridian's contact centres handle roughly 1,000,000 client conversations a month, card disputes, payments, account servicing. Finance wants a consumption forecast before the model contract goes to procurement.
02 · Decision