🔧 LLM Latency Budget: Make AI Features Feel Fast Without Burning Money

A slow AI feature does not feel smart. It feels broken.

That is the uncomfortable truth many AI SaaS builders hit after the demo works. The prototype answers well, the agent can call tools, and the RAG pipeline looks impressive. Then real users arrive. Prompts get longer. Queues form. Streaming starts late. One tenant uploads huge documents....