Ask an AI model to read twice as much and it does four times the work. Hand it a 300 page book instead of one page and the attention math alone is 90,000 times heavier. That square is the reason every chatbot you’ve used gets slow and expensive the second you paste in something long. Tonight SubQ posted a latency table where the square is gone. 32K tokens in 250ms. 100K in 660ms. 384K in 2.5 seconds. I went and did the math on that last step. 100K to 384K is 3.8x the tokens and 3.8x the time,…