Blindsight by Peter Watts for all these scientific details, classic first contact setting and powerful words, Hyperion Cantos if you want space opera

There are some works resonate with your idea, here's the first one I can recall.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14983

Really disappointed to see technical discussion is buried under personal matters and complains.

Brilliant but it seems to me every colab hack requires ngrok or something similar to relay the traffic, which it's sadly just too slow.