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title: Faster walkthroughs, mostly by deleting things
date: 2026-08-14
slug: faster-walkthroughs-mostly-by-deleting-things
author: Uku Tammet
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When a demo agent shows your product it is driving a real browser: clicking, scrolling, reading the page and narrating all at once. It was also, we discovered, spending a good deal of that time waiting for pages that had already finished loading. We put a stopwatch on every step and removed the pauses that were not doing anything for anybody.

- **Less silence between steps.** The quiet stretches while the agent works are down by about half in our test walkthroughs.
- **Quicker clicks.** The agent is now more intelligent about figuring out when a page has finished reacting to a click. Same choreography on screen with considerably less standing around.
- **A straighter cursor.** On its way to whatever it was about to click, the pointer used to stop off in the middle of the page first. It goes directly now.
- **Fewer very long pauses.** When a page reshuffles itself mid-click, which inboxes and conversation lists do constantly, the agent notices and takes a fresh look. It used to wait thirty seconds for an element that had ceased to exist. Thirty seconds is the browser's default level of patience, and about twenty-nine more than ours.
- **Demos start sooner.** The opening hello no longer queues behind setup work that could quite happily have happened alongside it.