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Streaming AI agent desktops with gaming protocols

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Author of helix code here. Here's a demo of the full system working. https://youtu.be/vVmnpcnLDGM?si=b6LxW6lmM7843LY0 We're opening the private beta where we provide a hosted environment for testing, or you can install the latest Helix release and run the installer with --code to try it on your own GPUs

https://github.com/helixml/helix/releases/tag/2.5.3

Re: Streaming AI agent desktops with gaming protocols

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Whilst impressive to “bend a protocol to your will”, why did you not just take Moonlight and build on top of it, making your own? No shoehorns needed. Just take what you like and build what you need.

It's nice for unmodified moonlight clients to be able to connect - they have tons of them, you can even run it on a Nintendo DS

Re: Streaming AI agent desktops with gaming protocols

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post #13

Whilst impressive to “bend a protocol to your will”, why did you not just take Moonlight and build on top of it, making your own? No shoehorns needed. Just take what you like and build what you need.

It's nice for unmodified moonlight clients to be able to connect - they have tons of them, you can even run it on a Nintendo DS

But is the ability to run it on the DS a feature? I highly doubt it.

I’m not trashing anything, I’m just saying that if they focused on what their market is, it would be clear no one is going to be coding/working on a Nintendo DS.

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's nice for unmodified moonlight clients to be able to connect - they have tons of them, you can even run it on a Nintendo DS

But is the ability to run it on the DS a feature? I highly doubt it. I’m not trashing anything, I’m just saying that if they focused on what their market is, it would be clear no one is going to be coding/working on a Nintendo DS.

I suppose but we got it working, and the primary interface is webrtc in the browser, and going via moonlight internally is just an implementation detail that got us here quickly. We are open to refactoring in the future of course :)

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> because we’re all going to become managers of coding agents whether we like it or not I will join the woodworking people before that happens, thanks.

A career change that left me as a recent graduate in a decimated marketplace missing the bottom ten rungs on the ladder and no interest in getting back into the software world has led me to advanced manufacturing as a metal worker. I code a little, move heavy steel pieces periodically which is a nice way to break up the standing/sitting but not nearly as much as a general laborer, solve lots of problems, keep my trig…

There’s 1,000 established industries that don’t offer the rapid growth and pay outs of the modern tech ecosystem. I’m excited to see some of the current industrial backwaters soak up technical talent freed up by the SV AI brain drain.

To think we’ve handsomely paid our best and brightest the last few decades in pursuit of.. advertising?

Re: Streaming AI agent desktops with gaming protocols

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A career change that left me as a recent graduate in a decimated marketplace missing the bottom ten rungs on the ladder and no interest in getting back into the software world has led me to advanced manufacturing as a metal worker. I code a little, move heavy steel pieces periodically which is a nice way to break up the standing/sitting but not nearly as much as a general laborer, solve lots of problems, keep my trig…

There’s 1,000 established industries that don’t offer the rapid growth and pay outs of the modern tech ecosystem. I’m excited to see some of the current industrial backwaters soak up technical talent freed up by the SV AI brain drain. To think we’ve handsomely paid our best and brightest the last few decades in pursuit of.. advertising?

Hopefully the exodus from the tech industry won't kill demand for too many job markets that are close comfortable cousins to the tech world.
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