Allow entering text while the agent starts up

[nullnuller]

Describe the bug

The config file is set (tried different ones, both local and api) but the front-end chat window keeps showing Initializing agent (may take up to 10 seconds)... and the textbox to send the message is not responsive (e.g., editable) and text cannot be entered.

Setup and configuration

Current version:

commit e9121b78fed0b5ef36718ca0bf59588c0b094b86 (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)

My config.toml and environment vars (be sure to redact API keys):

LLM_MODEL="groq/mixtral-8x7b-32768"
LLM_API_KEY="API_KEY"
LLM_EMBEDDING_MODEL=""
WORKSPACE_DIR="./workspace"

My model and agent (you can see these settings in the UI):

• Model:mixtral-8x7b-32768
• Agent:groq

Commands I ran to install and run OpenDevin:

git pull 
make build
make run

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open the browser pointing to http://localhost:3001/
2. Try to enter and instruction into the textbox

Logs, error messages, and screenshots:

Additional Context

[rbren]

This seems like a regression of https://github.com/OpenDevin/OpenDevin/issues/182