Why hand-rolled WebSocket sync breaks in production

A single-player game mutates state in its own loop. Making it multiplayer means someone becomes the authority, everyone else predicts, and the two have to be reconciled every frame. That reconciliation — not the WebSocket — is the hard part, and it’s the part agents reliably get wrong when hand-rolling.

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