Many teams only truly realize how expensive latency is after their product goes live.A seemingly simple AI Agent request often involves not just a single model call in the background, but an entire execution chain: the model understands the task, calls tools, reads data, reasons again, calls external APIs, and finally generates results. Users only see one answer, but the system may have traveled back and forth between different services more than a dozen times.If each step adds a little waiting time, the cumulative result is a difference of ...