Bifurcated Infrastructure: Why Coding Agents Need Control Planes and Data Planes

Teams deploying Claude Code focus on gateway latency benchmarks but miss the architectural truth: coding agents require two fundamentally different infrastructure layers—a control plane for agent management and governance, and a data plane for fast LLM routing. Treating them as one creates 1-2 seconds of compounded latency per task and operational gaps in compliance, scheduling, and access control.