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LLM inference cost: the quadratic term nobody removes, and a measured fix

Everyone is talking about LLM inference cost. The price per token keeps falling, yet bills keep rising, especially for AI agents. This article explains one cause that gets little attention, shows the arithmetic, and reports what happened when we removed it in a measured test on Gemini 3.8 Flash. Th…

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  1. 2026-11-12 09:18 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    LLM inference cost: the quadratic term nobody removes, and a measured fix

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