How streaming LLM APIs work. New TIL. I used curl to explore the streaming APIs provided by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Gemini and wrote up detailed notes on what I learned.
Also includes example code for receiving streaming events in Python with HTTPX and receiving streaming events in client-side JavaScript using fetch().
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