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REQUEST TO TOKENS · 07ONE PIECEIN CHUNKSWORST STALL 7.6 s → 0.22 s
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Chunked Prefill: Trading First-Token Time for Smooth Streaming

How engines split long prompts across steps, what the per-step token budget trades between time to first token and time per token, and how to set it.

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REQUEST TO TOKENS · 054 SLOTS, REFILLED AT EVERY STEP
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Continuous Batching, Animated: How a Server Keeps the GPU Busy

Why serving engines re-form the batch at every decode step, what it buys in throughput and latency, and the settings that control it.

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Inference Notes

Once a week: what changed in serving AI models, and what it means if you build, run or pay for them, in about five minutes.

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