Your AI agent works great. Then the phone gets warm. Then it doesn’t.
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There’s a failure mode in on-device AI agents that doesn’t show up in testing. It shows up five minutes into a real session. The device gets warm. The CPU downclocks. Latency spikes. The agent that responded in 200ms is now taking 800ms. Users don’t report “thermal throttling” — they report “it got…
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- 2026-10-12 03:48 · DEV Community — AI
Your AI agent works great. Then the phone gets warm. Then it doesn’t.