Why Your AI Agent Is Slow — And the Fix Nobody Talks About

Why Your AI Agent Is Slow — And the Fix Nobody Talks About Here's a pattern I've run into multiple times: an OpenClaw agent that takes 30+ seconds to respond even for simple tasks. After checking the model, the network, the session state — the culprit is almost always the same thing. It's not model latency. It's tool latency compounding. The Compounding Cost of Tool Calls AI agent latency isn't like traditional software latency. In a typical web app, a slow database query is one s...