AI Engineer YouTube · May 17, 2026

Why Your AI UX Is Broken (and It's Not the Model's Fault) — Mike Christensen, Ably

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Why it matters

SSE ties a response stream to a single connection. The user refreshes the page, walks out of WiFi range, or opens a second tab and the in-progress response is gone. Abort and resume are mutually exclusive for the same reason: the only signal a client can send over a one-way pipe is closing it, so the agent cannot tell

My takeaway: SSE ties a response stream to a single connection. The user refreshes the page, walks out of WiFi range, or opens a second tab and the in-progress response is gone. Abort and resume are mutually exclusive for the same reason: the only signal a client can send over a one-way pipe is closing it, so the agent cannot tell