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2026-07-12 / HACKER NEWS
Explainer: What Actually Happens Between Your Prompt and the First Generated Token
A technical explainer posted July 11 walks through the LLM inference path from tokenization to first-token generation, covering the prefill and decode phases. A primary educational write-up useful for builders wanting a clearer mental model of where inference latency comes from.
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