Quoting Luke Curley
WebRTC's packet-dropping mechanism for low latency fundamentally conflicts with AI voice interaction's core need for prompt accuracy, where users prefer waiting over receiving garbled input.
Simon Willison · May 9, 2026
WebRTC's packet-dropping mechanism for low latency fundamentally conflicts with AI voice interaction's core need for prompt accuracy, where users prefer waiting over receiving garbled input.
Meta successfully migrated 50+ use cases from a long-maintained internal WebRTC fork to a modular architecture synced with the latest upstream, solving the industry-wide 'forking trap' problem through a dual-stack architecture.