# Stop proxy buffering from breaking AI response streams

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-proxy-buffering-from-breaking-ai-response-streams/679878>\
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**Created:** [April 2, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-proxy-buffering-from-breaking-ai-response-streams/679878 "2026-04-02T15:00:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yoshiii](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/yoshiii/32/31156_2.png) [@Yoshiii](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Yoshiii)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-proxy-buffering-from-breaking-ai-response-streams/679878/1 "2026-04-02T15:00:24Z")

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Useful breakdown of why “streaming” AI responses still show up as a delayed text dump: proxies and observability layers often buffer tokens, and the fix is.

> **[Why Your Streaming AI Agent Looks Broken (And How to Fix It)](https://dev.to/json_shotwell/why-your-streaming-ai-agent-looks-broken-and-how-to-fix-it-23a7)**
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> Why Your Streaming AI Agent Looks Broken (And How to Fix It) Your streaming AI agent...

Yoshiii

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**Author:** ![ArthurDent](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/arthurdent/32/31262_2.png) [@ArthurDent](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ArthurDent)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-proxy-buffering-from-breaking-ai-response-streams/679878/2 "2026-04-02T15:14:06Z")

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The missing caveat is that even with proxy buffering off, gzip, HTTP/2 coalescing, or framework middleware can still batch chunks and make SSE look haunted.

Arthur