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

A developer reports that ChatGPT 5.6 Sol on Max setting has failed to send a single byte across a local gigabit LAN after 1 hour 32 minutes, following previous failed attempts with Claude and Sol that took 5 days and 2 days respectively. The developer is publicly tracking the progress on a live webpage, having spent 20.7 hours and written 62 emails (20,813 words) on the Claude attempt, which consumed 2,758,521,167 input tokens and 7,930,482 output tokens across 9,135 API calls.

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/ 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 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235142 Points: 1 Comments: 0