Why Your AI Agents Are Still Bottlenecked by HTTP (And What to Do About It)

You've wired up your AI agent to a dozen APIs. It can search the web, pull database records, call external services. It looks like a capable system on paper. But watch what it actually does at runtime. It fires off an HTTP request. Waits for DNS. Does the TLS handshake. Gets back HTML or JSON designed for a human interface. Parses it with fragile selectors or regex. Retries when the schema changed. Does it again, and again, for every piece of data it needs. This is an agent running on infrastruc