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AI leaders stress capacity planning for agent features

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Companies like Cisco and AMD are emphasizing the critical need to plan for AI inference capacity before launching new agent features. Jeetu Patel of Cisco highlights that infrastructure limitations, including compute, network bandwidth, and data center capacity, are the primary bottlenecks. Anush Elangovan from AMD suggests planning for a 100x increase in sustained traffic compared to traditional human-driven usage for agentic systems. Both executives stress the importance of measuring and understanding the specific needs of each component within a compound AI system, rather than solely relying on model improvements, to effectively manage costs and performance. AI

IMPACT Highlights the critical need for infrastructure planning to support the scaling of AI agent features, potentially impacting development timelines and costs.

RANK_REASON Executive commentary on AI infrastructure planning.

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AI leaders stress capacity planning for agent features

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Conor Bronsdon ·

    Plan inference capacity before an agent feature ships

    <p>Shipping an agent feature on a capacity guess is how you find the ceiling in production. <a href="https://chainofthought.show/guests/jeetu-patel/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jeetu Patel</a>, president and chief product officer at Cisco, names that ceiling as infrastructure, ahe…

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