In this episode of we're exploring latency—the tiny delays that can make your chatbot feel more like a bored teenager than a seamless conversationalist. Host Emily Laird unpacks why milliseconds matter, from dodging pedestrians with self-driving cars to avoiding rage-quits in battle royale games. Whether it’s network latency (data stuck in traffic) or compute latency (your AI’s brain lagging on the math), these hiccups can kill the magic of generative AI faster than you can say “Alexa, stop buffering.”

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