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Engineering message appends for AI Transport: three vignettes

calendar_today May 6, 2026 person Simon Woolf domain ably

At Ably we recently shipped AI Transport, our drop-in transport layer for streaming LLM output over Ably channels, with all the resumability, multi-device continuity, and handover guarantees that implies.

One of the tricky things about token streaming from a pub/sub point of view is that while a model progressively emits fragments of text, those fragments logically all belong to a single message. You want to deliver them to the user live as they’re produced, but for many other purposes you want

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