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Your AI feature works. The tests pass. But your users think it is frozen.
Technical success is not enough. Users feel the gaps in your interface.
Fix these three states to improve your UX.
Pre-stream (Thinking) Silence feels like a crash. When a user hits send, they see nothing for seconds. Solution: Send a thinking event immediately. Show a typing indicator. This fills the dead time.
Mid-stream (Generating) Adding tokens one by one slows down the browser. The screen lags. Solution: Batch your updates. Use animation frames to cap updates at 60fps. This keeps the UI smooth.
Agent Workflows (Thought States) Agents use tools before they talk. This looks like more silence. Solution: Show the process. Tell the user the AI is searching a database or reading a file.
Stop the waste. Many devs forget to kill the backend process when a user cancels. You pay for tokens no one sees.
Use connection guards to stop the stream. For queue jobs, use a Redis flag to kill the task.
Good UX is not polish. It is trust. It stops wasted spend.