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Muhyideen Akindele

Muhyideen Akindele

Muhyideen Akindele is a Senior Frontend Engineer with over seven years of experience building high-performance web and mobile applications across fintech, edtech, and gaming. He currently leads frontend architecture building production AI products like streaming interfaces, real-time LLM chat systems, and multi-step agent studios used by thousands of users daily. His work sits at the intersection of frontend engineering and AI product development, with a particular focus on how interfaces should behave when the system is still thinking. He is passionate about the craft of frontend engineering and the unique challenges that come with making complex, non-deterministic systems feel calm and trustworthy to the people using them.
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When Waiting Becomes a Feature: Rethinking Performance for AI Applications
React Advanced 2026React Advanced 2026
Upcoming
When Waiting Becomes a Feature: Rethinking Performance for AI Applications
For decades, frontend performance has been guided by the simple principle that faster is better. We optimize load times, reduce latency, and remove every unnecessary delay from the user journey.While building streaming AI interfaces with React, I discovered that traditional performance metrics do not tell the whole story. In AI products, users do not just experience a before and after. They experience a during. They watch responses stream in, follow reasoning traces, observe tool execution and form opinions about the system long before an answer is complete.In this talk, I want to share lessons learned from building production AI experiences, including streaming architectures, rendering strategies and real-time interfaces. We will explore why time to first token, streaming consistency and the quality of the waiting experience can matter just as much as raw speed.You will leave with practical insights for building AI-powered React applications and a new perspective on what performance means when users are watching the system think.
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