Should Developers Care What Hardware Runs Their Inference API?
ekhyatt · reddit · 2026-10-06
A Redditor notes that coding agents have made inference hardware matter: the same model can feel different across providers over long call chains. He asks whether developers should care if a provider runs Nvidia, SambaNova or something else—or just compare end-to-end task time, price and reliability.
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