2 min lesson
Streaming, latency and cost engineering
Answer this. "A customer's automated PR-review workflow runs on every commit and the monthly bill is climbing. Most reviews are small, mechanical diffs. What's the most impactful change and what tradeoff are you accepting?"
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A workflow nobody waits for and nobody can afford never gets adopted, no matter how good the output is.
Senior customer engineers adopt tools that feel fast and have a defensible bill. That makes streaming, model selection and token budgeting part of the engineering from day one.
Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
Map each workflow on cost vs. quality, then commit to a model tier. Latency is the third corner, and it is set by whether a human is waiting. There is no corner that wins all three.