Many teams only realize the true cost of latency after their product goes live.What appears to be a simple AI Agent request often involves not a single model invocation, but an entire execution chain behind the scenes: the model understands the task, calls tools, reads data, performs additional reasoning, invokes external APIs, and finally generates results. Users see only one response, but the system may have traveled back and forth between different services a dozen times.If each step adds just a bit of wait time, the cumulative result can...