KShivendu https://www.kshivendu.dev/blog Kumar Shivendu's blog en-us mail@kshivendu.dev (Kumar Shivendu) mail@kshivendu.dev (Kumar Shivendu) Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.kshivendu.dev/blog/token-storage Token-Native Storage: Read and Write in the Language Models Already Speak https://www.kshivendu.dev/blog/token-storage Agents read and write in tokens (BPE). But our DB engines are still designed for humans (UTF-8). Persist payloads as BPE token IDs with a static entropy coder and you get ~3.3× lossless compression, zero-cost persistence of LLM output, and a representation agents already speak. Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT mail@kshivendu.dev (Kumar Shivendu) vector-databasescompressioninternalsragnlp