I Subtracted the Queue. The Fast Model Wasn't.
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The number on your latency dashboard is not a model score. It is a traffic report wearing a lab coat. I keep watching people rank free endpoints by time-to-first-token as if TTFT were a property of weights. It isn't. Not when the box is shared. Not when your so-called eval is standing in the same l…
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- 2026-09-20 11:26 · DEV Community — AI
I Subtracted the Queue. The Fast Model Wasn't.