For those getting into AI workloads, hardware matters more than you think.
I spent yesterday testing multi-agent orchestration on a baseline system versus a mid-tier workstation to see how they handle concurrent reasoning. The baseline system hit a ceiling quickly…. it was slow, error-prone, and couldn’t handle more than two agents at once without stuttering.

The issue isn’t just speed, it’s also logic. The bot review board was littered with logic issues (on top of 80+ deterministic checks from run-time, through CI, I also run a couple of bots to catch logic nits). I noticed the difference, first-hand but research also supports when your system lacks thread density or hits the SSD swap file, the resulting latency causes agents to “time out” and assume incorrect states. This could very well be the primary driver for hallucinations in autonomous flows.

If you’re curious, I am currently running two different baselines for testing and two mid-tier workstations for orchestration. I can’t justify a pro workstation yet, but the mid-tier setups give me the flexibility to adapt later for heavier local workflows or tuning.