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znnajdlayesterday at 7:06 PM0 repliesview on HN

> 100% of the time spent in agent frameworks is spent ... waiting for the agent to respond, or waiting for a tool call to execute. Almost no time is spent in the logic of the framework itself.

But that’s exactly where multi threaded Elixir is better! You want a single thread like Node for CPU bound work, you want extreme multi threading for I/O bound work like AI agents. In Elixir you can do both: heavy CPU work without worrying about stopping the world, and heavy concurrency across millions of threads where work is I/O bound and you want to saturate your network connection. In Node you can’t do either of those things easily - it’s just a single thread.