| ▲ | pjmlp 12 hours ago |
| Well, SaaS don't do CLIs for extension APIs. Plus the performance issues to restarting processes all the time. |
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| ▲ | fooster 12 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Neither of those things are true? Also you are seriously comparing process startup time with the latency of a network call, or worse an llm call? |
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| ▲ | pjmlp 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, if the SaaS application needs to fork subprocesses for every little step of agentic workflows. Welcome to CGIs, a great 1990's technology for Web applications. | | |
| ▲ | fooster 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | We do that, and the cost of forking the cli vs the llm or network call is very small. It works really well. |
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