# 4 Speculative Decoding Variants

DevFeed: [4 Speculative Decoding Variants](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/4-speculative-decoding-variants-18230.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/4-speculative-decoding-variants>)

Author: Avi Chawla

Published: 2026-09-12T20:03:46Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Daily Dose of Data Science](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/daily-dose-of-data-science.md>)

Topics: [dynatrace](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dynatrace.md>), [MCP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mcp.md>), [MCP Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mcp-server.md>), [Traces](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/traces.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>)

Tags: [coding-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding-agents.md>), [dynatrace](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dynatrace.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [mcp-server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp-server.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how Dynatrace's open-source MCP server and related skills bring production traces and logs into coding agents for performance investigations. It also introduces speculative decoding, in which a cheaper drafter proposes tokens and a target model verifies them in parallel, then outlines variants based on how drafts are produced.

## Source excerpt

...covered with tradeoffs in production.