Agents think in milliseconds, legacy infrastructure doesn't. LinkedIn, Walmart and Zendesk shared how they closed the gap at VB Transform 2026
THE SO WHAT
If LinkedIn, Walmart, and Zendesk all say legacy infra is the real bottleneck for AI agents, the constraint has shifted from model quality to system latency and orchestration. Before you chase the next model upgrade, profile your end-to-end request path — network hops, DB calls, service fan-out — and remove the 100–500 ms anchors.
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