Every team that serves language models eventually hits the same wall: the GPU has plenty of memory and the model
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When an LLM serves a 2,000-token response to a prompt of 10,000 tokens, it does something that looks absurd from
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Every RAG system has two halves: a retriever that decides which text the model sees, and a generator that answers
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If you run a large language model behind a product, you have probably internalized an uncomfortable trade-off. The big frontier
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Serving a 7B model in fp16 takes roughly 14 GB of VRAM. A 70B model takes around 140 GB —
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Watch a GPU while a large language model generates text and you’ll see something strange: for most of every forward
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Every request that hits an LLM server pays the same tax before the first generated token appears: the prompt must
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Ask an LLM for JSON and you will usually get JSON. “Usually” is the word that ruins your week. One
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Large language model inference has an awkward performance profile: the GPU does enormous math, then waits. Every token requires a
Shipping an LLM-powered feature without an evaluation pipeline is like deploying a microservice without health checks — it might work
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