Rethinking Agent Runtimes: Not Every Request Needs an LLM

A developer building an agent runtime argues that requests should be routed rather than all sent to the LLM: operations the system can handle deterministically can be executed and verified directly, skipping model calls entirely.

2026-09-15 ~ 2026-09-15 · 2 related posts

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