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The Twenty-Second Agent
An AI agent takes 20 seconds per run and users are complaining. How do you make it faster?
Practical scenario
A support-triage agent averages 20 s per run. A trace shows five sequential model calls, three tool calls, and a context that grows from 2k to 14k tokens across the run.
What it tests
- • Whether the candidate traces before tuning
- • Understanding that step count usually dominates
- • Awareness of the latency/cost/quality trade