Building Real-Time Chat That Doesn’t Break at Scale (and Actually Uses AI Properly)

Building Real-Time Chat That Doesn’t Break at Scale (and Actually Uses AI Properly) Most teams underestimate chat. When you try to go past the demo, complexity rears its ugly head pretty quickly. You’re no longer just rendering messages. You’re dealing with: real-time delivery guarantees concurrency across users and sessions message ordering and consistency retries, offline states, and reconnections The Problem With Traditional Chat Architectures A typical chat setup looks something like this: R