Token Buckets Do Not Belong on Free Inference
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Admission control is a fence, not a conversation. A free language-model call is a variable-latency guess with an untrusted prompt surface, and it does not belong on the path that decides whether a request may enter a production service. The temptation is obvious in an industry that now asks models…
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Token Buckets Do Not Belong on Free Inference