2 min lesson
Set a latency budget for the full path
Break a measured product deadline into client, network and inference work.
Step 1 of 3
A code completion loses value when it arrives after the user has moved on. The useful deadline should come from current product measurements, not an unsupported universal number.
Worked prompt
Design a high-frequency code completion path with a strict, measured latency target and a bounded cost per useful suggestion.
Begin with request rate, useful-result rate, input and output size, regional traffic, model latency and cost. Those measurements determine whether cancellation, caching, routing or a different model can improve the product.