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Help! We're DEEP in (latency) Debt

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Slot: 9:35 AM
Day: Day 2
Type: Talk
Speakers: Sarah Chieng
Venue: Hyatt Regency Miami
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Official Session Summary

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In software engineering, "technical debt" refers to the accumulated cost of shortcuts and slop code that works today but creates problems tomorrow. You move fast, auto-accept AI suggestions, and defer the cleanup. Latency debt works the same way. Over the past several years, we've spent enormous resources making AI models more capable, bigger, smarter, more contextually aware. What we haven't done is make the infrastructure keep pace. We optimized for intelligence. We deferred the cost of speed. That bill is now due.

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Sarah ChiengCerebrasHead of DevX

Head of DevX at Cerebras, with a systems-level perspective on performance, developer experience, and the real cost of inference bottlenecks.

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