``` docker exec $CONTAINER $BIN key import --yes "$S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID" "$S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY" ```

You can't have "one giant computer" when the speed of light is a 16-minute ping time from one side of the swarm to the other. Also cooling. Space is a vacuum, you can't just use convection. The inner layers would melt before they could radiate it away.

Even maintenance and power distribution, you're talking about trillions of nodes that need active course correction to avoid a chain-reaction of collisions.

There's so many reasons this is not feasible and more of a whimsical thought experiment. I've barely even touched on most of the issues.

I'm not sure I'm sold on this argument considering the docker image for GH Actions is made by "myoung34" and half the actions are community written, have terrible documentation and feel like abandonware too.

Once we got the email that they were going to charge for self-hosted runners that was the final nail in the coffin for us. They walked it back but we've lost faith entirely in the platform and vision.

I'm at a much smaller outfit now so we have more freedom but I'd dread to think the arguments I would've had at the 4000+ employee companies I was at before.

PipeDream is a CLI utility that wraps the stdout of terminal games (like Frotz/Zork or Colossal Cave) and generates visualisations using the Gemini API.

The early version just generated isolated images, which felt disjointed. I built a state-aware navigator and an AI director that attempts to solve this by mapping out physical paths and cardinal directions. When you use the new --img2img flag, PipeDream uses the previous scene as a structural guide. If you walk North, the new room maintains the lighting, style, and architectural geometry of the previous room. It makes exploring feel a bit more cohesive than a slideshow.

I also added aggressive smart-caching. If you backtrack to a previously visited room, it bypasses the LLM entirely and loads the cached state, which keeps API costs down per session.

To try the built-in demo (API key required, free tier works fine): pip install pipedream-fiction export GEMINI_API_KEY=YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY pipedream-gui --img2img

If you want to try it with a real game, you can install Colossal Cave via uv tool install adventure and run pipedream-gui --img2img adventure.

You can find more examples of usage on the repo: [github.com/cpritch/pipedream]

I recommend running it with the --img2img flag enabled. It costs slightly more per generation, but the visual consistency is entirely worth it. I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback or suggestions.

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It uses a state-machine so the visuals stay somewhat consistent as you traverse. It's fully playable now but not validated against many games. It generally costs in the cents/pennies per session thanks to caching.

To try the built-in demo:

`pip install pipedream-fiction`

`export GEMINI_API_KEY=...`

`pipedream-gui`

Let me know what you think

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BSL/BUSL seems like a good fit for licensing here. It's technically source available instead of open source but just adds the layer that a competitor can't be built using your core. Otherwise the core is free to modify and fork. AGPL might be an option but I fear it would scare off a lot of companies in the space who have policies against AGPL licensed code but you'd get to keep advertising as OSS.