Love your idea. We have timeout mechanisms and we originally would be pretty aggressive with timeouts based on both time and response length to balance accuracy and speed. There’s research that longer responses tend to be less accurate (when compared to other responses to the same prompt). So we came up with an algorithm that optimized this very effectively. However, we eventually removed this mechanism to avoid losing any accuracy or comprehensiveness. We have other systems, including confidence scoring, that are pretty effective at judging long responses and weighting them accordingly.

We may reintroduce some of the above with user-configurable levers.