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Every LLM Request Has Two Halves. Only One Uses Your GPU Cores
Community description: Every LLM request has two halves that behave nothing alike. One explains the pause. The other explains the typing.
Dev.to | Aug 31, 2026 | Ankur Jindal
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To predict word 3, the model needs to know everything before it. You pay for the pause once, not once per word. Every word requires one full read of the model out of VRAM.
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