In 2026, AI agents have become the default paradigm for automating complex workflows: DevOps orchestration, customer support, database triage, and e-commerce transactions. Yet, every engineering team deploying autonomous agents in production eventually hits the same brick wall: Crippling Latency: A standard 4-step tool chain ( think -> tool -> observe -> think ) easily burns 15 to 45 seconds . Brutal API Bills: Running that loop 50,000 times a day costs thousands of dol...