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Sherlock Holmes: Why Prewarming a Voice Agent Didn't Make the First Reply Faster

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This is one case from the Sherlock Holmes series. Each write-up is a production problem me had to take apart. feel free to checkout other blogs. This one did not start as a latency mystery. It started as a bill. We prewarm a voice agent before the call connects. You send the model a request early,…

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  1. 2026-10-29 12:51 · DEV Community — AI
    Sherlock Holmes: Why Prewarming a Voice Agent Didn't Make the First Reply Faster

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