Free Inference Has a Tail. I Probe It Before I Ship.
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Everyone is arguing about whether agents are real. Meanwhile the thing that actually kills my runs is a queue. Free inference is not slow — its average is fine. Its worst 1% is where your run dies, and the average hides it perfectly. So I stopped benchmarking endpoints by "does it answer nicely." I…
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- 2026-09-14 21:44 · DEV Community — AI
Free Inference Has a Tail. I Probe It Before I Ship.