Agents spend most of their life on CPU work, not GPU token generation
ai · x · 2026-09-03
Everyone focuses on GPUs for token generation, but agents actually spend most of their time on scheduling, memory movement, and tool calls — all CPU work. A useful reframe for optimizing agent serving stacks.
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