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Design a batched inference system in which 100 requests take the same time as one.

ML System DesignReported interview question
Reported in a public interview report — Anthropic

Define latency, throughput, context, quality, and cost SLOs; route requests by model capability, batch continuously, manage KV memory, and stream output. Add admission control, fallbacks, versioned prompts, safety filters, canaries, and token-level telemetry.

Make interfaces and ownership explicit; add versioning, access control, monitoring, canary rollout, rollback, and a plan for delayed labels or human review.

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