Measuring Before Migrating: A Residency Smoke Test for Local-First Agents and Free Servers
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An agent that feels instant on a laptop can feel broken the moment its model call crosses a network boundary, and the postmortem usually blames the model. The regression more often comes from three numbers nobody recorded before the move: cold-start latency, payload size leaving the device, and beh…
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- 2026-10-27 12:49 · DEV Community — AI
Measuring Before Migrating: A Residency Smoke Test for Local-First Agents and Free Servers