IMHO people don’t often enough think through what the Google search type-ahead would be if it had 100s of millis per BPE token and a demanding cost structure.

IMHO people don’t often enough think through what the Google search type-ahead would be if it had 100s of millis per BPE token and a demanding cost structure. No one credible, least of all a guy like me who had been an enthusiastic amateur for a few years, is saying the stuff hadn’t gotten pretty wild recently. But unprecedented? Nah.