By skyforbes 
The 47-Step Journey Your Message Takes From Your Keyboard to AI Response (And Why It Costs $0.03)
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You open ChatGPT. You type: “Explain quantum computing.”
0.8 seconds later, you get a detailed, coherent response.
Simple, right?
Wrong.
In those 0.8 seconds, your 3-word prompt just:
- Traveled through 12 different systems
- Was processed by 175 billion neural network parameters
- Triggered 47 computational steps
- Used $0.03 of GPU compute
- Generated 2,847 mathematical operations per word
- Was checked by 7 different safety systems
- Required 80GB of RAM to process
- Consumed enough electricity to power your phone for 3 hours
And you thought it was just “AI magic.”
I spent 6 months Learning LLM infrastructure. I’ve seen what happens behind that innocent text box.
Today, I’m pulling back the curtain.
You’ll learn:
- What happens the millisecond you hit “Send”
- Why your prompt goes through 12…