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date: '2026-04-19'
title: TTFT
description: Kills my pipeline because just cause
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created: '2026-04-19'
modified: '2026-04-19'
published: '2026-04-19'
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TTFT or, Time to First Token is a mechanism added by model providers that intends to fix the problem of requests getting stalled and then stale.

But why would a request stall?