Sequential agent chains are a latency tax — the event-driven pattern that makes independent agents run in parallel — Event-Driven Concurrency
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I once watched a nine-minute agent workflow spend seven minutes and forty seconds doing nothing. Not failing. Not retrying. Just waiting each agent idle while the previous one finished a task that had no dependency on it whatsoever. I'd built the pipeline as a chain. Researcher, then analyst, then…
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- 2026-09-30 20:58 · DEV Community — AI
Sequential agent chains are a latency tax — the event-driven pattern that makes independent agents run in parallel — Event-Driven Concurrency