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220 posts
2026
Why Speaker Diarization Is the Hardest Problem in Voice AIOriginalSpeaker diarization figures out who spoke when. It sounds simple. It is not. Here is why it breaks, and what it takes to get right.Voice AI
TIL: What afinfo Reveals About Your Audio FilesOriginalafinfo prints every audio file property macOS knows about: sample rate, channels, bit depth, duration, and codec. Essential for debugging STT pipeline issues.TIL
The Infrastructure Race Is Changing How We Use AIOriginalAnthropic's SpaceX deal, OpenAI's new voice models, and record venture funding made the week of May 11 the moment AI infrastructure became the story.AI
Sunday roundup: from curl -w to ColossusOriginalOne TIL post went up this week. A landmark compute deal reshaped AI infrastructure. Here is the Sunday roundup for May 4-10, 2026.AI
5 developer experience wins in voice AI toolingOriginalError messages, timeout behavior, and observability patterns separate great voice APIs from frustrating ones. Here are five patterns that matter.Developer Experience
Friday fun: inspecting audio files from my terminalOriginalsoxi shows audio file metadata like sample rate, duration, and channels from the command line. Inspect files before sending them to any voice API.TIL
What running a developer Discord taught me about voice AIOriginalFour years in a voice AI developer community showed me the same problems again and again. Audio format issues, silent failures, and the questions nobody puts in the docs.Developer Experience
How voice AI SDKs handle things REST clients never have toOriginalBuilding SDKs for streaming voice APIs means managing WebSocket state, audio buffers, reconnection, and backpressure. REST client patterns break immediately.Developer Experience
TIL: Measuring API Response Times With curl -wOriginalcurl -w prints timing details like time_total, time_connect, and time_starttransfer after every request. Profile API latency from the terminal.TIL
When the model stopped being the moatOriginalBy spring 2026, frontier model quality had converged enough that the real competitive advantage shifted to developer experience and API design.AI