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BUILDING RELIABLE AI CHAT ON MOBILE

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Doctolib found that building AI chat on mobile was much harder than expected. Streaming responses broke React Native's standard scroll patterns, so they open-sourced their own list component to fix it. The main insight was switching snapshot polling for event polling (“what changed since X?”), which eliminated ~80% of wasteful requests and made error states explicit.