LLM Prompting Wastes Computation; Reuse Potential is Huge
miniapeur · x · 2026-08-22
The author argues that unlike cheap database queries, LLM inference re-computes from scratch for similar or repetitive questions, wasting vast computational resources. The key insight is that reusing existing computations (e.g., via semantic caching) could significantly lower costs.
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