The Great Decoupling: Why Your Website Should Be the Source of Truth
Latency in agentic workflows, parallel environments, and the case for decoupling from the CMS and making the website the source of truth.
Latency is the whole game in an agentic workflow. Sean and I get into feedback loops, parallelism, caching and server-side rendering as ways to shorten the wait, and the messy business of negotiating conflicts when several agents work in parallel environments.
Then the bigger idea: decouple from the CMS entirely and treat the website as the source of truth. That drags in framework agnosticism, platform constraints, and whether a self-contained application could be the communication surface itself.
Listen to episode 5 on bloodsweatandtokens.xyz, or watch it on YouTube.
About Taylor MacDonald
Taylor’s career started in Lexington, KY designing and developing big-name collegiate athletic sites like ukathletics.com and texassports.com. Later, while working at Creative Department in Cincinnati, he pushed his analytical side, working on brands like Tide, Macy’s and LexisNexis.
Taylor joined the Ample partnership in 2014 and in his role as our Chief Technology Officer has pushed our company and clients to the next level. As chief JAMstack evangelist, Taylor has a passion for simple, battle-tested architectural solutions that drive down costs and increase confidence for our clients.