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.NET Team Builds 2ms AI Moderation Pipeline Without Generative AI
A development team built a real-time Discord moderation pipeline in .NET that achieves sub-12ms latency by abandoning generative AI. The system uses zero-allocation memory with Span<T> and a 64-character head-tail compression heuristic for deterministic inference. It processes over 50,000 concurrent members using local MiniLM-L6-v2 models with strict toxicity thresholds.
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The approach highlights a growing trend: for latency-critical tasks, deterministic local models can outperform generative AI, but the trade-off is reduced nuance in moderation.
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