You've nailed the real friction point that demos gloss over: agents are great at generation but terrible at verification in production systems. The vision latency tax is brutal once you hit real workflows.
ya, for real, my boss was like let's do e2e testing with AI, look for solutions out there... then like 2 days later he's like wtf is this bill, and i was like you wanted that right? Was using vision calls in azure foundry and was like over 100 bucks or something just in 2 days of me setting it up and trying it out with all the test cases it had.