Why Coding Agents Need Two Halves of Infrastructure: Control Plane + Fast Data Plane (opens in new tab)

You've probably seen the benchmarks by now. Bifrost does 11 microseconds. LiteLLM Python does 40-50ms. The messaging is simple: latency matters for gateways. But this misses what teams actually building with Claude Code and Codex have discovered: the real problem isn't gateway latency alone. It's that coding agents need two completely different infrastructure layers, and teams are treating them like one. The Two Layers of Coding Agent Infrastructure When you deploy Claude Code or Codex into a...