This is an excellent addition. The “token cost” of multilingual AI is easy to overlook because we tend to benchmark everything against English. And I especially like your point about misdiagnosing the problem. When retrieval quality drops, it’s tempting to blame the embedding model or search layer, when tokenization may already be introducing fragmentation upstream. So the strawberry bug isn’t just a curiosity—it’s a reminder that seemingly small tokenizer decisions can have real consequences for cost, context, and multilingual performance. Thanks for adding this perspective!
