What if AI worked at 1.000.000 tokens per seconds?
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Thinking through 1,000,000 tokens per second forces you to confront that at some throughput, model latency stops being the bottleneck — your data plumbing, eval harness, and human review do. Use these thought experiments to stress-test where your architecture would break if inference became effectively free and instant.
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