AI can't solve this coding problem.

Recently, I found myself working on a personal project that involved using FFmpeg WASM to transcode WebM into HLS. Along the way, I learned the hard way that AI still can’t be fully relied upon for truly innovative coding. Essentially, if you’re working on a problem that hasn’t been widely explored, don’t depend on AI to generate a complete, working solution. My goal was to render animations on an HTML canvas and stream that canvas directly to YouTube—all from the browser, with no backend involved. I spent weeks on this: searching for references, reading FFmpeg documentation, and looking for existing projects (I found only one). To a large extent, I relied on ChatGPT to suggest references and guide me on what to search for and where to look. I also prompted it to generate code snippets for specific functionalities. In every case, the generated code didn’t work. I then switched to Claude via GitHub, but that didn’t produce working code either. However, Claude did offer a valuable insigh