How do people build batch agents now?
Summary
作者通过与几位构建 AI agent 的开发者交流,总结出批量 agent 任务的共同模式(延迟容忍、无交互、大批量),并指出现有实时与批量推理 API 均无法很好满足这类工作负载,尤其是 KV cache 命中率问题导致批量 API 实际上难以节省成本。
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