posit-dev / posit-dev/shinychat

Optionally allow limiting streaming text speed at a maximum rate/speed

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Description

For production applications that support many concurrent users, sometimes having too fast or even instant text generation is bad in the sense that it allows users to mindlessly ask more stuff to the IA, burning tokens in the process.

Maybe an optional argument to cap text streaming speed would be useful to limit text speed to a high-enough rate that invites users to read while text is being generated, therefore leading users to actually read answers while they stream instead of waiting for the full answer to appear. This would have the effect of spacing out new messages, as users will have to wait an acceptable amount of time before getting the full answer.

This would be only a cosmetic or UI change.

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Research direction

Start by tracing the chat component's streaming text path and its configurable arguments. Clarify how an optional maximum rate should affect displayed text while preserving current behavior when unset. Add coverage for capped streaming and the unchanged default behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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