An AI query passes through multiple processing stages (tokenization, routing, planning, information retrieval, generation) in a multi-stage assembly line, and each stage consumes tokens from the shared budget.
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“It's really like a multi-stage assembly line. Your query gets tokenized, it gets routed to the right place, a plan is made, information is retrieved, and only then, after all that, does the main LLM step in to predict the final answer.”
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Designing LLM Systems PART 1 Foundations Chapter 1 AI Systems Architecture The Real Currency of AI— ⭐ The Geometry Code --Ananta Geometry ⭐Created: 8/13/2026, 9:56:44 AM
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