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Ok there's a whole lot of wtf going on here.
AI codebots in the cloud doing your code for you, cool, I guess.
So you need to watch them? And presumably intervene if necessary? Ok.
So then:
They decided that they'd stream a video of the AI codebots doing their thing.
At 40Mbps per stream.
For "enterprise use".
Where presumably they want lots of users.
And then they didn't know about locked down enterprise internet and had to engineer a fallback to jpeg for when things aren't great for them. Newsflash - with streaming video peaking at 40Mbs per user, things will never be great for your product in the real world.
How, in any way, does this scale to anything approaching success? Their back end now has to have the compute power to encode and serve up gigabits of streaming video for anything more than ~50 concurrent users, let alone the compute usage of the actual "useful" bit , the AI codebots.
For say, 5 users out of a site of 200, IT departments will now see hundreds of megabits of streaming traffic - and if they're proactive, they will choke those endpoints to a crawl so that their pathetic uplink has a chance to serve the other 195 users.
All of this for a system that is fundamentally working on maybe 5kB of visible unicode text at any particular moment.
Quit reading at:
But your comment made me go back and look out of disbelief. How does a person get this far down a rabbit hole?
AI psychosis is a real thing, and it's apparently a lot easier to fall into these rabbit holes than most people think (unless, I suspect, like me, you have a thick foundation of rock-solid cynicism that the AI simply will never penetrate). This is probably another interesting example of it.
This is a really good point.
This post is a great example of what will skipping a research and just trusting the first solution you find lead to.
When you are researching the thing yourself, you usually don't find the solution immediately. And if you immediately have something that seems to work, you're even less likely to give up on that idea.
However, even taking this into account (because the same can probably happen even if you do research the thing yourself - jumping to a first solution), I don't understand how it's possible that the post doesn't make a single mention of any remote desktop protocols. I'm struggling to figure out how would you have to phrase your questions/promts/research so that VNC/RDP, you know - the tools made for exactly the problem they are trying to solve - does not comes up even once during your development.
Like, every single search I've tried about this problem has immediately led me to RDP/VNC. The only way how I can see the ignorance displayed in the post is that they ignored it on purpose - lacking any real knowledge about the problem they are trying to solve, they simply jumped to "we'll have a 60 FPS HD stream!", and their problem statement never was "how to do low-bandwith remote desktop/video sharing", but "how to stream 60 FPS low-latency desktop".
It's mindboggling. I'd love to see the thought and development process that was behind this abomination.