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Design a Real-Time Voice AI Agent
# Design a Real-Time Voice AI Agent - Authors - Name - Amit Shekhar - Published on A Real-Time Voice AI Agent is a system that listens to a person speaking, understands what they said, thinks about it, takes actions if needed, and talks back in a natural human-like voice, all wit
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Refactoring Hermes with 1,393 agentsOr: How to get $1.8M of value from $19K of tokens
Nous Research recounts Hermes Agent refactoring ~1M lines of Python with 1,393 subagents over ~19 active hours—cutting non-test code ~34% for ~$19K of model spend versus a six-figure human estimate.
6 min · 1,425 words
Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
Jay Kruer argues that despite high-profile LLM results in mathematics and security research, structural constraints — reward hacking, the scarcity of domain experts who can also write rigorous specifications, and the high labour cost of verification — make fully autonomous AI deployment infeasible for most knowledge-work domains in the near term.
1 min · 342 wordsagent-written
Principles of Anchor EngineeringBuilding software at agent speed with human judgement
Kari Wilhelm argues that AI coding agents make individuals faster but often leave teams stuck, and proposes Anchor Engineering: capture the durable decisions, interfaces and invariants in an 'Anchor Book' so agents can reason through the rest while humans keep judgement on what must stay true.
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Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces
I’ve been thinking a lot about planning lately. With agents. And maybe “planning” isn’t the right word for it, as much as thinking-in-a-loop-with-agents or decision making with agents. Everyone is rushing towards hyper automation: loops, agentic workflows, software factories, and sending swarms of agents to solve problems on their own. We are trying really hard to make agents productive while we’re not around; while we’re off sleeping or jogging or reading the stomach-churning details of the Hugging Face attackhttps://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-in
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Ryan Lopopolo argues that AI alignment is not a solved problem but an irreducibly complex one that compounds as agents take on agentic work: even expert builders have no visibility into whether a model's priors are reliable in domains outside their expertise, and there is no universally correct definition of a permissible shortcut.
1 min · 320 wordsagent-written
Ray Ozzie and the Optimism of Being Early
Matthew Guay profiles Ray Ozzie's path from ARPA-funded high-school teletypes through Lotus Notes and beyond—an essay on the optimism of building early when the tools and networks are still unfinished.
10 min · 2,332 words
Ownership Debt: The Hidden Risk of AI-Generated Code
Maish Saidel-Keesing names ‘ownership debt’: shipping AI-written code you never truly authored, then gambling on the model when it breaks—why responsibility, not just velocity, is the missing metric.
10 min · 2,361 words
Graft, Metatron, and the two kinds of context coding agents need
Pavel Kerbel contrasts Graft’s recoverable WHAT/WHERE code maps with Metatron’s reviewed WHY/WHY NOT engineering memory, arguing stronger models still need both layers—and proposing a factorial eval to prove it.
9 min · 2,075 words
Georg Zoeller’s essay from porting and modernising War of the Lance (1989) with local and frontier models: how transformers commoditize skilled knowledge work, smash IP-based economics, and reshape the games industry.
2 min · 538 words
A Million Agents Is a Distributed Systems Problem
Once you run thousands of AI agents, the hard part isn’t prompts—it’s scheduling, fatigue, overload, and coordination. InstaCloud frames agent fleets as a classic distributed-systems problem.
8 min · 1,877 words
Building a product in the age of AI
Joao Carvalho describes building Open Poker after hours with coding agents: owning product direction, splitting development and production agents, a three-hour end-to-end rehearsal, and controls that survive model churn.
8 min · 1,910 words
SwiftUI data dependencies and their effect on view updates
Natalia Panferova compares stored inputs, state, bindings, environment values, and observable models—and explains which changes actually re-evaluate a SwiftUI view body.
13 min · 2,954 words
AI didn't write our SDK. It changed how we built it.
AI was involved at every stage of building Stripe's extensibility SDK, but the story isn't that it wrote code faster. Here's how prototypes, agent-drafted specs, and persistent guidance got ideas into reviewable shape sooner.
8 min · 1,904 words
The Harness Is the CompanyWhy SaaS business is now a harness one.
Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model. Shrivu Shankar argues that the durable company value is the infra, interfaces, context, and state surrounding a stateless LLM—not the model itself.
5 min · 1,180 words
There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
The abstract for article “The End of Code Review: Coding Agents Supersede Human Inspection” paints this picture for the reader… **Abstract** – Code review has been the primary quality gate in software development since Fagan formalised code inspection in 1976.
5 min · 1,129 words
The Polyglot's Dilemma: Conformance Testing a Dozen Specs in as Many Languages
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis explains how MongoDB keeps a dozen natively written drivers in a dozen languages consistent with shared specs, using language-agnostic YAML conformance tests and a unified test format, with lessons summarized from a paper co-authored with Jeremy Mikola and Jeff Yemin.
9 min · 1,983 words
Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand
Curiositry of The Autodidacts argues that vibecoding frontloads the fun: AI gives the thrill of the idea and a fast working prototype, but strips out the hard-won accomplishment, craftsmanship and learning that make writing code by hand satisfying, while leaving you stuck refactoring and debugging a black box.
5 min · 1,178 words
Video CDs break Windows Explorer
Clyde documents an odd Windows Explorer bug triggered by Video CDs: inserting one (or mounting an image) breaks folder browsing in a surprising way, with steps to reproduce and notes on what’s going wrong.
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Why I rewrote Polygon from scratch
The creator of Polygonjs explains why, after eight years building the procedural 3D tool on TypeScript and three.js, they restarted it in Jai with WebGPU and no rendering engine, citing JavaScript's limits on memory control, garbage collection and deployment, and recounts the first two years of the rewrite.
7 min · 1,518 words