Daryl, an independent developer, built flipbook.page. A website that doesn't exist until you load it. Instead of serving pre-written HTML, the site streams web code live from Google's Gemini API, building the page as the model generates it. The AI is the code. Raw generative UI with no middleman.
The demo didn't survive attention. After getting shared on social platforms, the site started throwing "RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED" errors. Google's API rate limits couldn't handle the traffic spike. Free and lower-tier projects get stricter caps. Public demos like this are fragile by design.
Even without traffic problems, the concept hits a hardware wall. Users on discussion threads reported GPU inference latency makes streaming too slow for anything responsive. You'd need orders-of-magnitude faster inference to make this practical. Current GPUs and cloud APIs aren't there yet.
Daryl focuses on getting AI to dynamically control the DOM rather than generate static text. Flipbook.page is a build-in-public experiment testing where the actual limits are.
Right now, those limits are rate quotas and inference speed.