Inside the Tech Weave Café, a heavy AI model rests on the counter —
not just code, but the very soul of a product.
It needs real-time inference, stable streaming, flawless visuals.
Coffee isn’t the goal. Understanding is.

await speaks first, voice calm and smooth:

“I make code look synchronous, like time paused midair.
But I live on the main thread — heavy work breaks me.”

In the corner, compute waves:

“I’m a temp worker. One-time jobs only.
A continuous stream would wear me out.”

Isolate.spawn looks up, composed:

“I can stay alive — handle streams, compression, inference.
But I need SendPort and ReceivePort.
And I can’t touch assets.”

A frown.
“How, then, to load the model file?”

From the bar, the philosopher-engineer steps forward,
as if expecting the question:

“Assets load only on the main thread.
Use rootBundle.load(), convert to Uint8List, then pass it to the Isolate.”

A sigh drifts across the café.
At the back table sits the last, quiet figure — FFI.

In a classic C-language suit, he speaks in a low tone:

“No talk, just work.
I run native functions inside background Isolates — no Channels, no assets.
Give me clean data, and I’ll run the inference.”

A silent understanding settles.

Main thread loads the model.
Isolate.spawn manages the stream.
FFI runs the inference.
Smooth frames, fast logic — the true MVP.

The philosopher-engineer smiles.

“No one comes here just for coffee.
They come to grasp the ontology of Flutter.”