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luciana1utoday at 8:22 PM3 repliesview on HN

engineering effort to make something 1000x faster that accounts for 0.1% of total runtime is the most software developer thing imaginable


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pikertoday at 8:25 PM

"The pursuit of excellence does not need justification."

https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2074225453217505494

michaelmiortoday at 8:25 PM

This depends on what your workflow is. There are use cases for tokenization that don't always involve immediately feeding the text into a model.

alansabertoday at 8:26 PM

It's pretty funny but then again, why not if it's as trivial to simplify as it appears