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

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 fire until the full request timeout runs out.... Weiterlesen: Time to First Token (TTFT): Cut Off Stalled LLM Streams and Fail Over