The green line is your team of AI agents working — every beat is work getting done. Now make one agent do a slow job, two ways, and watch what happens to the rest of the team.
This is real, not a cartoon — the pulse is your computer's actual work loop. The OLD way blocks it for a full 1053ms (a real slow database save), so it goes flat. The NEW way runs that exact same job on a separate helper, so it never stops. Hermes measured the same for real: 0 beats of work the old way vs 105 out of 105 the new way.