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Very cool. Took a similar approach to optimizing openutv by looking at flamegraphs. UTV is a fork of openrv which is an older release of the commercial RV. Like many things it uses ffmpeg and also native readers and writers for certain formats. Allowed me to get it to 8k@60fps buttery smooth playback with hardware acceleration. If you are still in the video/imaging space would love your feedback on UTV. openutv.com

Can you talk a bit about the performance characteristics? What's the max throughput? How does that change with latency and jitter?

Man. HN is brutal. Just one example. And yes, when you're looping agents and builds to identify performance optimizations and build features sometimes you don't know what those bounds are going to be and it's much faster to let the agents work it out, update their learnings, and keep building.

True but it was a whole bunch of fragile scripts/functions with lots of ifs. I'll give you a real world example of what's different. Agent spins up a VM to run a build on windows. During the build it realizes it's out of disk space. Agent resizes disk on demand. Build finishes and it launches the app. Runs some tests and realizes it's cpu and memory constrained. Adjust the cpu and memory and runs new tests. tears it down and sends the perf logs back to me. Or it looks at system resources and decides what other vms it can pause while it runs the tests and then turns them back on after.

There are so many unknowns and the ability for the agents to dynamically adjust and make decisions allows for some really powerful autonomous workflows.

Same. It's quite remarkable. Two other things Claude and I have done. I have a spare workstation running proxmox in my garage. Claude can now create, snapshot, delete, extend, start, and restart vms. It's been great. I also have skills that allow it to spin up spot instances when I need to test things that rely on hardware I don't have like certain Nvidia gpus or 100gb networking. What a time to be alive.

You're approaching this from the wrong angle it's not the technology in the router average people are buying. They care about ease of use, reliability, and features. In that order. Dropbox won because it provided rsync in an easy to understand product. If ddwrt allows you to build features into routers that have good UX for average people then you win. What would those features be? That's the work you should be doing

Off the top of my head. A mobile app for setting up and remotely monitoring and controlling my home network. Pihole/pivpn built in with wireguard and a good UX for creating tunnels. Host isolation. A local llm that I can ask questions and get fixed (why can't I print to the printer from my laptop on ssid1. Fix it). Kid friendly things for parents. Easy kid schedules and device groups to limit screen time and reports on what sites they visited.

Ubiquitis amplifi app had a decent mobile app with some of these things.

Go after the product not the technology.

The Pima Air and Space museum in Tucson Arizona is incredible and has a SR-71. Highly recommend.

I love the idea of this. But things are moving too fast and $20 / month to have a frontier model is something a $3000 non upgradeable black box running an open source model can't compete with.

Always ask for your imaging data. I have never been denied it. Then take that and run it through your own analysis. Years ago I had some lab work done looking for a specific genetic marker that could explain something. While that was running I took my 23andme genome and cross referenced it with snpedia and had my answer (didn't have the marker) before my doctor did. She was blown away. This was 10 years ago. I'm guessing things have improved quite a bit.

I have been happy with Google's Antigravity harness and Jules so looking forward to playing with this. Thanks for sharing. Simultaneously I am looking to also revisit local offline models.

While I feel like I have a decent understanding of the model landscape I'm feeling a bit lost at which agentic harness to leverage for local models. Hermes, Cline, Aider, Qwen Code, Goose, Pi, OpenCode, something else? I live in the terminal so Desktop UX is a bonus but not a must have.

Can I modify the antigravity settings/program to point to a local model? Where should I spend my energy?

Was looking for a way to test out an exe without having to use my own vm. Over the years I've built out a bunch of stuff to spin up vm's in a variety of ways (gcp/azure/aws/proxmox/qemu/guacamole/vmware/hyperv/etc..) so I'm pretty familiar with this space. However I just stumbled upon AppOnFly and was blown away. Instant Windows Desktop as Admin in browser (they are using guacamole) with a free 20 minute trial. Paid rates are incredibly reasonable (and can retain state). Yeah you don't get a gpu, but wow the UX is so frictionless and simple. Bravo.