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Walk me through how you'd diagnose high latency in an LLM inference pipeline

The OpenAI FDE deep-dive where you're expected to walk the full stack (network, queueing, tokenization, prefill, KV cache, batching, decode) in order, with a measurement at each hop. The triage sequence, with the numbers that tell you which layer is guilty.

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The OpenAI FDE deep-dive where you're expected to walk the full stack (network, queueing, tokenization, prefill, KV cache, batching, decode) in order, with a measurement at each hop. The triage sequence, with the numbers that tell you which layer is guilty.

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