NeilandOrca 1e545f9c30 fix(speech): coalesce model download progress churn on the Settings/Voice path (#11962)
* fix(speech): coalesce model download progress churn

A model download emits one state update per HTTP chunk (thousands for a
500MB model). Each one costs the renderer an IPC round-trip and a forced
re-render of the speech-model menu, which stays open by design while a
download runs — the Radix portal/Presence tree all four page.settings
React #185 reports crashed inside.

Emit at whole-percent granularity (what the UI renders) and keep the
modelStates array identity stable when a refresh changed nothing, so a
no-op refresh no longer forces a commit.

Adds a speech_model_state_churn breadcrumb, registered in both
coalescing sets, because no bundle in the cluster carried any speech
telemetry to confirm a download was in flight.

* fix(speech): quantise polled model state so download progress stops churning the renderer

Adversarial round 1 found the renderer-side stabilisation was inert during a real
download. The progress fan-out already coalesces to whole percent, but the renderer
discards the event payload and re-polls getModelStates, and getModelState returned
the cached downloading state verbatim - raw sub-percent progress. So every chunk
produced a fresh object, resolveModelStates never matched, and all the real benefit
came from the main-side coalescing alone.

Quantise the polled reply to the precision the UI already renders
(Math.round(progress * 100)), keeping the stored cache exact.

Also from round 1:
- the whole-status dedup swallowed downloadModel's already-downloaded branch, whose
  lone 'ready' is the only notification the requesting window ever gets - a dead
  click and a permanently stale pane with two windows open. Gate it on
  downloading -> downloading so every one-shot transition stays unconditional.
- rename the storm test off '.react185.': it counts renders and asserts nothing
  about #185, and #185 could not be reproduced at IPC-realistic pacing.

* fix(speech): stop the churn breadcrumb firing on every healthy download

Adversarial round 2. CHURN_REFRESH_THRESHOLD was 60 per 5s window, but main
clamps download progress at 0.9 and emits on whole-percent change, so one
healthy download is capped at ~91 refreshes — and a 56MB model on a fast link
lands all of them inside a single window. The breadcrumb fired on every normal
download and burned a slot in the 30-entry ring it was coalesced into to
protect. Raise it to 250 so it only fires on the per-chunk shape it was added
to detect; noOpRefreshes in the payload still separates the two causes.

Round 2 also found that every assertion round 1 added was one-sided
(toBeLessThanOrEqual), so each of the three core behaviours could be mutated
into "do nothing" with the whole suite still green:

- suppress every downloading -> downloading event: progress bar frozen at 0%
- toWholePercentState returning 0: every poll reports 0%
- resolveModelStates never adopting a same-length change: the Voice pane never
  updates and a finished model never shows as ready

The suite measured that the fix reduces work, never that it still does the
work. Convert the two ceilings to exact series, assert the storm test's render
floor as well as its ceiling, and add dictation-model-state-stabilisation.test.ts
covering adoption per changed field, a full whole-percent download, and both
sides of the churn threshold.

Ruled out and deliberately not fixed: round 1's request-sequencing MEDIUM on
refreshModelStates. 50 concurrent getModelStates() settle strictly FIFO over
ipcRenderer.invoke at constant microtask depth, and migrationReady is assigned
once in the constructor, so a monotonic request id would be dead code.

* test(crash-reporting): cover speech churn breadcrumb name-coalescing

The churn breadcrumb's registration in COALESCED_RENDERER_BREADCRUMB_NAMES and
NAME_ONLY_COALESCED_BREADCRUMB_NAMES had no test: the storm test only asserted
the constant equals its own literal. Removing either registration kept the whole
suite green.

It carries no message field, so without the name-only entry
rendererBreadcrumbCoalesceKey returns undefined and every firing takes its own
ring slot — the eviction this breadcrumb exists to avoid.

* test(dictation): pin the churn threshold as a rate, not a lifetime total

Both existing churn tests stopped at exactly 250 refreshes in one window, so two
mutations survived: deleting the per-window reset (the counter degrades into a
session total, and three healthy downloads at 91 refreshes each cry wolf), and
=== to >= (fires on every refresh past the threshold, flooding the ring).

Pins Date.now rather than using fake timers so the window rule is measured, not
the machine.

* test(dictation): pin the churn clock and the window's lower bound

The two 250-refresh churn tests measured real elapsed time against a 5s
window, so a loaded runner that took longer than one window to run the
loop would roll the window and go red. Pin Date.now in both.

Pinning alone leaves CHURN_WINDOW_MS unpinned below: shrinking it 5_000 ->
50 kept all 13 tests green, yet a 50ms window can never accumulate 250
refreshes and the detector would be dead. Add a storm spread across most
of one window so the constant has to be wide enough to hold a sustained
storm, not just an instantaneous burst.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* refactor(speech): narrow progress churn fix

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Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
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