I wonder when we reach speed of 1000 tps with high quality models. 5 years? 10 years?
Since the whole goal of software architecture schemes it to allow the rest of us non-geniuses to still understand it and modify it, perhaps the same could be true of llms.
Perhaps a million-per-second hypothetical (small) model can be more useful than a state of the art big one.
Maybe when intelligence plateaus it could become a main differentiating factor, like smartphones and battery life.