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Designing cold-start warmups for production AI agents
Pre-load tools, caches, and credentials so the first user request does not pay the agent's setup tax.
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What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2cold start
- 3warmup
- 4latency budget
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Section 1
The premise
An agent that takes 8 seconds to boot will lose users no matter how smart it is.
What AI does well here
- Hydrate tool registries and embeddings on instance boot
- Pre-warm prompt caches with system prompts
What AI cannot do
- Predict which user will arrive next
- Eliminate cold-start entirely on serverless
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