Our real ceiling was tokens-per-minute, not latency: 2.2 turns/min for the whole product. When the queue saturates under that, do you drop the task or queue it?
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Everything written about agent performance is about latency or cost per call. The thing that actually bound us was neither. Measured on real traffic: about 3600 tokens per turn against a provider ceiling of 8000 tokens per minute. That is 2.2 turns per minute for the whole product, every user toget…
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Our real ceiling was tokens-per-minute, not latency: 2.2 turns/min for the whole product. When the queue saturates under that, do you drop the task or queue it?
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