War Story: I Ditched My CS Degree for a Bootcamp and Became a Go 1.25 Engineer I never thought I’d be writing this. Two years ago, I was three semesters into a traditional Computer Science degree, drowning in abstract calculus and outdated Java curriculum, wondering if I’d ever write code that actually mattered. Today, I’m a backend engineer working full-time with Go 1.25, building low-latency m
When you have 5 unrelated questions, should you pack them into one message to the LLM, or send 5 requests simultaneously? Which is faster? Splitting into multiple independent parallel requests is almost always faster. This isn't a gut feeling — it's determined by the underlying inference mechanism of LLMs. Let's walk through the reasoning from first principles. To understand this problem, you firs