To quickly select backfill candidates without comparing SHAs, we compare the last summarized post to the topic's highest_post_number. However, hiding or deleting a post and adding a small action will update this column, causing the job to stall and re-generate the same summary repeatedly until someone posts a regular reply. On top of this, this is not always true for topics with `best_replies`, as this last reply isn't necessarily included.
Since this is not evident at first glance and each summarization strategy picks its targets differently, I'm opting to simplify the backfill logic and how we track potential candidates.
The first step is dropping `content_range`, which serves no purpose and it's there because summary caching was supposed to work differently at the beginning. So instead, I'm replacing it with a column called `highest_target_number`, which tracks `highest_post_number` for topics and could track other things like channel's `message_count` in the future.
Now that we have this column when selecting every potential backfill candidate, we'll check if the summary is truly outdated by comparing the SHAs, and if it's not, we just update the column and move on
This feature adds a periodic problem check which periodically checks for issues with LLMs that are in use. Periodically, we will run a test to see if the in use LLMs are still operational. If it is not, the LLM with the problem is surfaced to the admin so they can easily go and update the configuration.
When navigating between topic we were not correctly resetting
internal state for summarization. This leads to a situation where
incorrect summaries can be displayed to users and wrong summaries
can be displayed.
Additionally our controller for grabbing summaries was always
streaming results via message bus, which could be delayed when
sidekiq is overloaded. We now will return the cached summary
right away if it is available direct from REST endpoint.
This allows summary to use the new LLM models and migrates of API key based model selection
Claude 3.5 etc... all work now.
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Co-authored-by: Roman Rizzi <rizziromanalejandro@gmail.com>
