I Wish I'd Known About AI API Speed Sooner — Here's My Honest Breakdown
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I'll be honest — when I first started building apps that talked to AI models, I had no idea how much speed would matter. I figured as long as the answer came back eventually, users would be fine. Boy, was I wrong. The first time I tested a chatbot I built, there was this awkward pause before words started popping up on screen, and I remember thinking "that felt like forever." Turns out, my gut was right. Latency kills apps. After a few weeks of frustration, I went down a rabbit hole testing dif