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Building Real-Time AI Job Streaming with Server-Sent Events
A developer details how they replaced a spinner with Server-Sent Events to stream long AI audit jobs to the browser. They defined a fixed event vocabulary with four types to handle multi-minute jobs. The approach uses semantic progress steps and automatic reconnection to improve user experience.
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The article offers practical SSE patterns for long-running AI tasks, but the techniques are well-known; the real value is in the event vocabulary design.
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