Before buying a faster model, check your agent's traces: serial API calls eat latency
gethackteam · x · 2026-09-15
Before swapping in a faster model to speed up your agent, inspect its traces first. If three independent API reads happen one after another, you're paying that latency on every run. Parallelize or batch where possible — more tokens per second won't fix waiting on serial network calls.
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