It reads as a configuration change and it is a capacity change. Cache memory per request grows with the limit, prefill cost grows with what people actually send, and concurrency falls in proportion.
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Product wants to raise the context limit from 8k to 128k tokens. What happens to your infrastructure?
It reads as a configuration change and it is a capacity change. Cache memory per request grows with the limit, prefill cost grows with what people actually send, and concurrency falls in proportion.
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