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OPENAI'S WEBRTC PROBLEM
Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter
WebRTC is a poor choice for voice-based AI due to its packet-dropping design, which favors low latency over the audio accuracy needed for reliable prompts, and introduces technical debt with complex port management. The better alternative is QUIC, which uses unique connection IDs for easy network switching and load balancing.