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220 posts
2026
Sunday roundup: debugging habits and multilingual speechOriginalOne post this week on voice AI debugging. Around it: Flux went multilingual, AssemblyAI launched a Voice Agent API, Twilio updated Conversation Relay, and the daily cadence began.Voice AI
5 habits that reduce voice AI debuggingOriginalMost voice AI debugging time goes to problems that follow a pattern. Here are five habits I built at Deepgram that catch those patterns before they become incidents.Engineering
Friday fun: bat is cat with syntax highlightingOriginalbat shows file contents with syntax highlighting, line numbers, and a pager. It replaces cat with the same muscle memory and a lot more useful output.TIL
The invisible work of voice AI SDKsOriginalFour years of maintaining voice AI SDKs across half a dozen languages. The work that never makes the changelog.Developer Experience
How streaming speech recognition worksOriginalStreaming speech-to-text sends audio chunks over WebSocket. Acoustic models, language models, and decoders explain the latency-accuracy tradeoff.Engineering
TIL: ffprobe for audio file inspectionOriginalffprobe shows sample rate, channels, duration, and codec of any audio file. Check audio format before sending it to a speech-to-text API.TIL
Two faces of AI progressOriginalOpenAI shipped persistent workspace agents into production. Anthropic held back Mythos 5. Two answers to the same question: what counts as shipping AI.AI
Sunday roundup: starting fresh, April 26OriginalAnnouncing the start of daily publishing on lukeocodes.dev. Plus OpenAI workspace agents, Anthropic Mythos 5, and what was happening at Deepgram.Developer Experience
5 questions I ask before integrating a streaming APIOriginalConnection drops, backpressure, and wire formats. Five questions I ask every streaming API before building on it, learned from voice AI integrations.Developer Experience
Friday fun: generating test tones for voice AI pipelinesOriginalsox synth generates test audio files from scratch at any sample rate and duration. No microphone needed for speech API development.TIL