Post by Plume

Netflix became the unofficial speed test for broadband. If it buffered, subscribers blamed their ISP. That one application reshaped how entire networks were built and judged. LLMs are getting there faster. Across Plume-enabled homes, AI app data volume has grown roughly 2,000% year-on-year, led by tools from OpenAI and Anthropic. And the usage is shifting. Subscribers aren't just asking questions anymore. They're running agentic workflows: multi-step, persistent, latency-sensitive. When one of those breaks mid-task, there's no buffering icon. There's a failed deliverable, a missed deadline, a lost client. For ISPs, speed tests won't catch this. Uptime dashboards won't flag it. The networks that hold subscriber confidence are the ones that can see application-level behavior in real time and respond before the problem registers. Our Senior Director of Product Management, Justinas Bisikirskas dug into what LLM adoption actually looks like inside real homes and what it demands from the networks serving them. Read the full analysis: https://lnkd.in/gkyb7CqK