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260 posts
2026
TIL: Deepgram keyterm prompting for accurate transcriptionOriginalImprove transcription accuracy for specialised terminology, product names, and technical jargon using Deepgram's keyterm prompting.TIL
Enterprise AI Spending Passes $37 BillionOriginalEnterprise generative AI spending hit $37 billion in 2025, up 3.2x from the prior year. The trend reshaping the industry faster than any model release.AI
Sunday roundup: a quiet publishing week in voice AIOriginalTwo posts from late May: what multilingual voice agents cost, and why contributing guides exclude newcomers. Plus the rest of the month's roundup.Voice AI
5 command-line tools for shipping voice agentsOriginalBuilding voice agents means living in a terminal. Here are five CLI tools I use every day for audio debugging, API testing, and latency measurement.Developer Experience
Friday fun: my .zshrc has more aliases than I have memoryOriginalI opened my .zshrc for the first time in months and found aliases I don't remember writing, for tools I don't remember installing. This is what I found.Developer Experience
The inequity of contributing guidesOriginalYour CONTRIBUTING.md isn't welcoming. It's a gatekeeping document. Most open source contribution guides exclude the people they claim to want.Opinion
What multilingual voice agents cost: latency and complexityOriginalBuilding a voice agent that handles ten languages without falling over is harder than it sounds. Here's what the architecture actually costs.Voice AI
TIL: Debugging Pipelines With the tee CommandOriginaltee reads from stdin and writes to stdout and files at the same time. Debug complex shell pipelines and save intermediate data without breaking the chain.TIL
When AI development tools stopped being optionalOriginalGoogle I/O, Anthropic's London event, and OpenAI GPT-5.5 all landed in the same window. AI development tools crossed from experimental to essential.AI
Sunday roundup: API design, I/O, AnthropicOriginalOne post on voice API design in a week when Google I/O and Anthropic's London event reshaped AI. The roundup for May 2026.Developer Experience