Introduction: The Hidden Cost of AI Agent LatencyMany teams only truly realize how expensive latency becomes after their products go live. What appears to be a simple AI Agent request on the surface often involves not a single model invocation behind the scenes, but an entire execution chain: the model understands the task, calls tools, reads data, performs additional reasoning, invokes external APIs, and finally generates results. Users see only one answer, but the system may have already traveled back and forth between different services a...