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p50 vs p99 Latency: Why Median Benchmarks Mislead AI Agent Workloads

calendar_today July 29, 2026 person Anish Singh Walia domain digital-ocean

We ran 1,590 measured requests against DigitalOcean Serverless Inference to compare p50 vs p99 latency, TTFT, and 10-call agent chains. The single-call TTFT winner lost the real agent task by 28%.

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