[pmxi]

There are plenty of LLM use cases where the output isn’t meant to be read by a human at all. e.g:

parsing unstructured text into structured formats like JSON

translating between natural or programming languages

serving as a reasoning step in agentic systems

So even if it’s “too fast to read,” that speed can still be useful

[martinald]

You're missing another big advantage is cost. If you can do 1000tok/s on a $2/hr H100 vs 60tok/s on the same hardware, you can price it at 1/40th of the price for the same margin.

[sweetjuly]

You can also slow down the hardware (say, dropping the clock and then voltages) to save huge amounts of power, which should be interesting for embedded applications.

[kldg]

out of curiosity, is anyone here using AI in embedded with experiences to share? I see NPUs and the like popping up more on credit card and buildroot SBCs I get, but with zero documentation or sample scripts for them.

[amelius]

Sure, but I was talking about the chat interface, sorry if that was not clear.