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We Mass-Deployed 15-Year-Old Screen Sharing Technology and It's Actually Better (blog.helix.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

hardware-accelerated, WebCodecs-powered, 60fps H.264 streaming pipeline over WebSockets and replaced it with grim | curl when the WiFi got a bit sketchy.

I think they took https://justuse.org/curl/ a bit too serious.

We’re building Helix, an AI platform where autonomous coding agents work in cloud sandboxes. Users need to watch their AI assistants work. Think “screen share, but the thing being shared is a robot writing code.”

Oh, they are all about useless tech. Why would you need to watch an agent code at 1080P 60fps using 40Mbps?

[–] nebeker@programming.dev 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, I was confused about why the helix editor might need screen sharing. Haha.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was thinking the mattress company. Totally different vibes if they are needing to send video....

[–] nebeker@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I’ve seen some very excited sponsor spots for them on YouTube. CDNs often make ads load faster than videos, so who knows what kind of innovations they could be financing. All of them perfectly privacy preserving, of course…

[–] rimu@piefed.social 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yup, crazy. I record all my coding screencasts at 15 fps and it looks fine while the video file is tiny.

[–] Aatube@thriv.social 2 points 1 day ago

useless

People are paying them for it, so it's useful enough apparently.