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Show HN: See how long it takes ChatGPT Sol 5.6 to send a byte across the LAN

https://robss2020.github.io/sol-vnc-elapsed/
1•logicallee•1h ago
The problem: I noticed that any VNC client I tried wasn't able to reliably send keystrokes (about a byte on average) on my local wired LAN between a Mac Mini and a Windows desktop, both connected with gigabit ethernet cables to the same router.

Keystrokes would constantly drop out. So I asked ChatGPT 5.6 Sol on Max setting to build a solution that is able to send keystrokes without dropping them.

It's building it right now.

Here you can see how long it takes until it is able to send 1 byte across the local network given gigabit LAN:

https://robss2020.github.io/sol-vnc-elapsed/

This is updated in realtime with a screenshot every 15 minutes of whatever the fuck it thinks it's doing on this grade school afternoon assignment.

This is a work in progress. So far the previous time to 0 bytes was 5 days for Claude (I then killed the project and tried with Sol) and about 2 days time to 0 bytes for Sol before I had to delete that attempt.

This time I'm building this in public so we can all see how long it takes it to get 1 byte across a connected ethernet LAN line without dropping it.

Here are the statistics from Claude's build:

hours_personal_time_testing (62 sessions x 10 min): 10.3 hours_personal_time_emails (62 emails, test+think+write+read): 10.3 hours_personal_time_total_estimate: 20.7 emails_you_wrote_on_this_subject: 62 words_you_wrote_excluding_quoted_history: 20813 average_words_per_email: 335 claude_input_tokens_total_incl_cache: 2758521167 claude_output_tokens_total: 7930482 claude_api_calls: 9135

At that point I had to delete the project. Now let's see if Sol can do any better!

So far it's been 1 hour 32 minutes and counting...

I'll keep updating this for the next two or three months and tens of billions of tokens until it's done! I mean is writing a byte across the network really an O(n^n^n) operation? (8^8 is only 16,777,216 so it's gotta be at least n^n^n.). Big if true!

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Show HN: See how long it takes ChatGPT Sol 5.6 to send a byte across the LAN

https://robss2020.github.io/sol-vnc-elapsed/
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