Databricks Engineer Jokes: Our Inference Is So Fast We're Asking for a Pause
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-09-12
Yuchen Jin, 5 months into Databricks, jokes that "our AI inference is getting too fast — we are extremely close to the model answering before you finish typing the prompt. We are not asking for a ban. We are asking for a pause." A riff on AI-safety pause rhetoric, repurposed to brag about inference latency.
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