beginnerChatOptions, Response Types & Streaming
Why use streaming (`Flux<String>`) instead of a single blocking call for a chat response?
A full LLM response can take several seconds to generate; streaming sends tokens to the client as they're produced, so the UI can render them progressively (like ChatGPT's typing effect) instead of showing a blank screen until the entire response is ready — this dramatically improves perceived latency even though total generation time is unchanged.
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