I thought prompt tweaks would fix my slow agent, but the real win was chasing cold starts first
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I spent way too long trimming prompts for a workflow that felt slow. Not expensive. Not inaccurate. Slow. And not even in the obvious way. Users kept saying some version of: It feels slow before it even starts thinking. That line turned out to be the clue. I was blaming GPT-5 and Claude Opus 4.6 fo…
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- 2026-09-12 06:09 · DEV Community — AI
I thought prompt tweaks would fix my slow agent, but the real win was chasing cold starts first