So your inbox lit up yesterday with the email. The proposal worked, the interviews worked, the late-night drafts worked. Take a moment, breathe, tell your family, post the screenshot. You earned it 🎉 GSoC is, at its core, a few months of getting paid to learn from people who have spent years figuring out how to build software that thousands (sometimes millions) of strangers depend on. Think of it
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