Searls After Dark #9 - Real-time Chat with Turbo Streams

What's this about?

It's a big one! We're blowing up how we hit OpenAI's API from a traditional blocking HTTP request/response to an async streaming API that simulates a typing effect in real-time as GPT-4 thinks of what to say.

Author

Justin Searls

Justin Searls

Co-founded testdouble.com

Programming is inherently difficult, but most innovations heralded by the industry attempt to paper over its complexity, inadvertently making it harder for people to understand how to build and maintain working software. My mission is to identify, explain, and mitigate this phenomenon.