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Time to First Token (TTFT): Cut Off Stalled LLM Streams and Fail Over

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TL;DR Time to first token (TTFT) is the wait between sending a streaming request and receiving its first output token, and it is the latency users feel most in chat and coding tools. A provider that accepts a stream and then stalls never returns an error, so ordinary retries and fallbacks do not fi…

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  1. 2026-10-29 18:24 · DEV Community — AI
    Time to First Token (TTFT): Cut Off Stalled LLM Streams and Fail Over

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