The Hidden Cost of AI Agent DeploymentMany teams only truly realize the expensive nature of latency after their products go live. What appears to be a simple AI Agent request on the surface often conceals an entire execution chain operating behind the scenes. Rather than a single model invocation, the system orchestrates a complex sequence: the model first interprets the task, then calls various tools, reads data from multiple sources, performs additional reasoning, invokes external APIs, and finally generates the result presented to the use...