sPTC: Speculative Tool Calling Overlaps Execution With Token Generation
CShorten30 · x · 2026-08-25
Alex Zhang introduces Speculative Programmatic Tool Calling (sPTC): a general technique that speculates on upcoming tool calls during code generation in a harness and queues them early, overlapping them with token generation and REPL execution time. The name is precise: like CPU speculative execution, work is done optimistically and only rarely discarded when necessary. He came up with the idea, built a version, and wrote the solo blog post all within 72 hours.
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