Steer While It Streams, and Thinking That Stays Where You Put It
August 5, 2026 · InfraScout Team
Two small changes to the chat composer, both about the same thing: the interface doing what you told it rather than what it assumed.
Steering had no button
You have been able to redirect a response while it streams for a while now. Type into the composer mid-response and your text is staged as a steering message that reaches the AI at its next opportunity — no need to stop it, lose the work in progress, and start over.
The affordance for it was a small line of legend text. The only button on screen while a response streamed was the red Stop square, so a staged steering message looked like a draft with nowhere to go, and the reasonable read of that screen was that you had to stop the response before your text could matter.
There is now a button. As soon as your draft has content, an amber send button appears next to Stop, and pressing it sends the steer. The amber matches the tone already used on pending steering chips, so the color consistently means "steering" wherever it appears. Stop does not move or disappear — it stays exactly where it was, and still cancels.
Nothing about the mechanism changed. Only whether you can see it.
Thinking blocks stopped arguing with you
When the AI reasons through a problem before answering, that reasoning appears in a collapsible block. The block used to manage its own state on two triggers: it opened itself when reasoning started streaming, and closed itself when reasoning finished.
Both fought the user. Collapse a block you were not interested in, and the next chunk of reasoning reopened it. Expand one you wanted to read, and it closed itself the moment the AI moved on — usually mid-sentence.
Both are gone. A block now starts collapsed and changes only when you click it. Every block tracks its own state, so opening one to read it does not open the rest, and a long conversation stays scannable rather than becoming a wall of reasoning.
The state deliberately does not survive a page reload. We considered persisting it and decided against: in a conversation with fifty reasoning blocks, restoring your past choices means fifty blocks open at once, which is the problem this change was meant to solve.
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