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Design a Latency Aware Reasoning Agent

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You are building an agentic assistant that can answer simple requests quickly but may also use iterative reasoning and tools for harder tasks. Some users care most about speed, while others care more about answer quality on complex problems.

Question

How do you balance inference latency with the computational cost of iterative reasoning steps?