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Notes on real-time voice, agent orchestration, and decision systems. The throughline is what survives production: latency, memory, tools, approvals, and messy inputs.
15 posts
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Evals over vibes: testing AI systems like software
It worked when you tried it is not a test for any LLM system. Here is how to build an eval discipline that catches prompt, model, and retrieval breaks.
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Telephony gotchas: what SIP does to your audio that localhost doesn't
Your voice agent works on localhost because localhost hides everything a phone line does to audio. Here is what breaks the moment a real call hits SIP.
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Regression-testing a voice agent like software
A one-line prompt or timer change can silently break a call flow. How to build a regression harness that replays real calls and asserts on structured output.
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The latency budget of a Twilio and Deepgram voice agent, from published numbers
What each stage of a phone voice agent actually costs — telephony, Deepgram STT, LLM, and TTS — using vendors' own published latency figures, not guesses.
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Choosing a speech-to-text and TTS stack for a voice agent in 2026
How to pick streaming STT and TTS for a real-time phone agent, judged on the numbers a caller feels: streaming latency, partial stability, and tail latency.
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How to turn a restaurant phone call into a kitchen ticket with AI
KOTA takes messy, real-time speech over the phone and resolves it into a structured order the kitchen can act on. Here is the pipeline, and the parts that were actually hard.
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Why single-prompt AI agents break: orchestration is the product, not the model
Most agents are one prompt in a loop. Archon is a control plane: it routes across models, runs tools over MCP, keeps compressed memory, and hands real work to coding agents through a worker router.
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Markets as a real-time system: scoring decisions, not outcomes
A trade can be right and lose, or wrong and win. I built tooling that scores decision quality and enforces process, treating the market as a noisy real-time system rather than a slot machine.
Off-the-shelf AI phone tool, an answering service, or a custom agent: what should a small business pick?
Off-the-shelf voice AI, an answering service, or a custom-built agent? An honest, no-hype breakdown of which one a small business should actually pick.
AI receptionists for small business, explained
A plain-English guide to AI receptionists for small business: what they do, how they actually work, what they cost, and who should skip them entirely.
Does an AI receptionist actually work, or will it embarrass me on a call?
The honest answer to whether an AI phone agent can handle real callers without embarrassing you: how it deals with mumbling, mind-changing, and its mistakes.
On Emotions
Emotions aren’t something to control—they’re a part of you, quietly reminding you where it hurts. Learning to befriend them is where real growth begins.
The Outsider's Truth: An Analysis of Camus's The Stranger
A deep dive into Albert Camus's The Stranger, exploring themes of authenticity, the absurd, and finding freedom in a world that demands conformity.
We’re All Walking Toward the Same Light
Spirituality isn’t about sides — it’s about direction. Through faith or awareness, belief or observation, we’re all moving toward the same quiet coherence of love and truth.
The Art of Generative Design
Exploring the intersection of code and creativity to produce unique visual art through algorithms and mathematical beauty.