On May 7, 2026 — five days from now — OpenAI removes the Realtime API beta. If you have a voice agent, transcription pipeline, or any WebSocket/WebRTC integration with gpt-4o-realtime-preview, you have a long weekend's worth of work to do, and most of it isn't the part the migration guide warns about. The loud failures are easy. The WebSocket returns 401, the WebRTC connection won't establish, you
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