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Agent runs are fine at step 1, then get slow around step 8

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I’m profiling an agent that starts quickly but gets noticeably slower as the conversation continues. The individual completions do not look terrible, yet a 10-step run feels much worse than the sum of the first few calls. What do you check first when that happens? Prompt growth, KV cache behavior,…

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  1. 2026-09-03 12:42 · r/AI_Agents
    Agent runs are fine at step 1, then get slow around step 8

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