# The 80% Bottleneck Cut That Makes AI Agents More Responsive

- slug: the-80-bottleneck-cut-that-makes-ai-agents-more-responsive
- date: 2026-04-22
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Your AI coding tool is about to feel noticeably snappier — and the model had nothing to do with it. OpenAI cut API roundtrip overhead by 80% with a new persistent connection mode, without touching inference speed itself.

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