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Comment by WhitneyLand

6 hours ago

It’s not outdated at all to use tokens to estimate performance, it’s directly related.

But why should I care? If my metrics are speed and cost? How many tokens it takes as a user is arbitrary to some extent.

  • If speed is a metric for you, tokens required to solve a problem affects that metric.

    All else being equal passing triple the amount of tokens through a model to solve the same problem makes it slower.

    Doesn’t mean this model is bad, and it has to be considered how cheap it is, but it’s a factor.