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 solved the long-term maintenance challenge of a large open-source fork by building a dual-stack architecture and shim layer, enabling continuous upstream synchronization and safe A/B testing.