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Why do AI products stream responses word by word, and when shouldn't they?

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Streaming is the cheapest latency improvement in AI products. The interviewer wants the reason, the trade-offs, and the cases where showing partial output is a mistake.

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Streaming is the cheapest latency improvement in AI products. The interviewer wants the reason, the trade-offs, and the cases where showing partial output is a mistake.

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