hotic's bloghttps://hotic.cc/en/hotic’s personal blog: tech, design, and stray thoughts.enThu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy Inference Speed Is the Next Battleground for Coding Agentshttps://hotic.cc/en/posts/smart-is-cheap/https://hotic.cc/en/posts/smart-is-cheap/Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechWhen we talk to a model, the wait before the first token is prefill; streaming tokens out one by one after that is decode.