Polling Long-Running AI Jobs on Mobile Web: Retries, Backoff, and the visibilitychange Trick
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Most AI features I've shipped have the same shape: the user uploads something, the server kicks off a job that takes anywhere from a few seconds to a minute, and the client has to wait. In Belle AI (a selfie-based color analysis tool), a report takes about 10-60 seconds. Most users are on phones, s…
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- 2026-10-18 03:00 · DEV Community — AI
Polling Long-Running AI Jobs on Mobile Web: Retries, Backoff, and the visibilitychange Trick