Stress-Testing an AI Gateway With 100 Concurrent Agents: All HTTP 200, Continuity Collapsed
its_vayishu · x · 2026-09-12
The author recounts stress-testing their AI gateway with 100 concurrent agents: every request returned HTTP 200 and the dashboard showed all green — yet underneath, their 'continuity score' had quietly collapsed.
The 7-part thread breaks down how surface-level health metrics masked real degradation in agent session quality, a cautionary tale for anyone building AI gateway and agent infrastructure.
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