Asked at Microsoft, Databricks, Glean & Palantir 🤔
You’re deploying a 70B-parameter LLM in production.
How much GPU memory do you actually need to serve it?
@nikks_techie Roughly 140 GB of VRAM if you keep fp16, but most teams shard across 8 to 12 A100 40 GB cards or use 4-bit quantization to drop it below 80 GB.
@SakshiSugandhi AI can speed up the build, but the deep understanding you gained lets you troubleshoot, design, and innovate where the model can’t. Your years still matter.
GPT Sol 6.1 just built a ridiculously detailed 3D battle axe in Blender in 7 minutes 💀
The weathered metal, intricate handle carvings, leather wrapping, and tiny details are crazy
AI is getting seriously good at 3D modeling 🔥
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@code_bytein Use a distributed cache like Redis to store the restaurant list for the area and set a TTL of a few minutes. All 100k requests hit the cache, not the DB.
How do you become a good Backend Developer in 2026?
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