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Incremental Streaming vs Culimative Streaming

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Mar 14, 20260 views
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Problem

I noticed that Anthropics APIs use cumulative streaming in the completion endpoint, resulting in repetitive data being sent over the wire. Is there a reason for this design choice? I imagine Incremental streaming is typically preferred for efficiency. I see this is on the endpoint and not a python or ts issue. so this could impact existing customers.

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Solution: Incremental Streaming vs Culimative Streaming

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Thanks, this is something we're planning to improve in the next incarnation of our API.

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    Thanks, this is something we're planning to improve in the next incarnation of o

    Thanks, this is something we're planning to improve in the next incarnation of our API.

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Resolved in anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python GitHub issue #10. Community reactions: 0 upvotes.

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