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WHY WEBSOCKETS BEAT SSE FOR AI STREAMING AT SCALE
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WebSockets provide the bidirectional channel that agentic interfaces need for cancellation, approvals, and steering while a response is still streaming. They also reduce per-message overhead and support ordered binary data, but teams must still add reconnection, delivery guarantees, fan-out, and operational tooling themselves.