Loop engineering is a teeter-totter: you never have enough CPU cores and inference at once
kieranklaassen · x · 2026-10-20
Developer Geoffrey Huntley offers a sound-engineering analogy for running large agent loops: like audio's highs vs lows, you either lack inferencing capacity or CPU cores — never balance both.
He's currently out of CPU cores with spare inference, but jokes that adding cores will only flip the shortage. The attached meme — "provision more CPU cores ↔ GPUs idling at 4% utilization" — captures the eternal workload scheduling imbalance of agentic workloads.
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