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We Mass-Deployed 15-Year-Old Screen Sharing Technology and It's Actually Better (blog.helix.ml)
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[–] 52 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Quit reading at:

…AI platform where autonomous coding agents…

But your comment made me go back and look out of disbelief. How does a person get this far down a rabbit hole?

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    How does a person get this far down a rabbit hole?

    I don't know. Software engineering is tangential to my field but I have to wonder, is software efficiency even a consideration these days?

    It seems that maybe a week of just solid thinking about what they have and what they need - WITHOUT touching a keyboard - could have put them in a better position. But move fast and break things doesn't seem to accommodate that kind of approach.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    I have to wonder, is software efficiency even a consideration these days?

    Sometimes I wonder if people come up with the most inefficient application on purpose just to come up with a bandwidth heavy use case for some new communication tech (5G wireless, or 1Gb fiber, or..)

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    unless, I suspect, like me, you have a thick foundation of rock-solid cynicism that the AI simply will never penetrate

    Do we know each other or something :).

    Honestly great comment, couldn’t agree more.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    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.

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