Dev Tools · 2h ago
Agent Deadlines Are Correctness Tests, Not Just SLOs
Production AI agents often fail by taking too long, not by crashing. This article argues that latency should be treated as a correctness failure, not just an operational metric. It proposes grading the entire run, including elapsed time, as Tier 1 evidence in agent evals.
Meridian48 take
The piece makes a solid point that time-to-completion is an objective, unforgeable signal for agent reliability, but it's a niche developer practice rather than a broad industry shift.
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