Thorsten Ball(@thorstenball):My maybe controversial opinion: If TTFT is important to you, you're doing something wrong. Don't wait for the agents, make them wait for you. Don't stare at a single transcript. Do something else. (Yes, there's a tiny number of exceptions to this.)

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Thorsten Ball@thorstenball

2026.09.25 06:41

My maybe controversial opinion: If TTFT is important to you, you're doing something wrong. Don't wait for the agents, make them wait for you. Don't stare at a single transcript. Do something else. (Yes, there's a tiny number of exceptions to this.)

Georgios Konstantopoulos@gakonst

2026.09.25 01:15

playtesting every harness again, i cannot believe how you folks don't lose it over the TUI taking over 50ms to start, and TTFT >2s - these companies are achieving AGI and here we're stuck with the slowpoke harnesses wtf