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AI engineering 7 min readYour LLM has two budgets: throughput and context.
Estimate sustainable request rate from prompt size, output size and repeated calls without confusing it with the context window.
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Connect prompt size, context limits and token budgets to the experience your users actually receive.
Start with a guide, work through its example, and explain the result in your own words. Then take the idea into a practice task.
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