Tool calls are the hidden bottleneck killing AI coding speed — Crabbox and 5 fixes
steipete · x · 2026-10-16
@superlinearfm argues models are getting faster but tests/builds still make agents spend more time waiting on tool calls than coding. steipete's Crabbox offloads expensive checks to other machines. The checklist: measure where time goes, run fewer/relevant tests, parallelize independent checks, offload heavy work, and swap in faster tools like Oxlint.
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