TL;DR: Voice AI feels robotic because it ignores how humans actually converse. When you talk to someone, they don’t just wait silently—they constantly signal engagement with small sounds (“mm-hm,” “yeah,” “right”) that happen during your speech, not after. These “backchannels” fire 200-700ms after specific cues like micro-pauses
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TL;DR: After a brutal mission prep where Windows fought us at every turn—Hyper-V networking dying randomly, RDP clients lagging inexplicably, Delivery Optimization not delivering, WSL2 refusing to work—I’m calling it: Windows as a server platform is becoming abandonware. Microsoft has moved to Linux themselves. The writing
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I read an article about AI-powered hackathons this week that crystallized something I’ve been saying for years: there are only three ways to win in business—better product, better price, or better people. I'm not just talking about software. I believe these three are true in any
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Follow the builders. Whatever you think of Elon Musk or X (Twitter), frontier AI lives on X. This is a list of (in my opinion) the top 50 Frontier AI folk on X. These are the practitioners: people building real products, sharing actual code, and showing their work. I’ve
TL;DR: AI coding without structure = chaos. Deft fixes this with layered Markdown files that encode your standards once—coding conventions, test requirements, commit rules—and load contextually based on what you’re building. Python API? It loads python.md → rest.md. Go CLI? go.md → cli.md. Your preferences
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Deploying the amazing AI super-agent now known as Moltbot. TL;DR What is it? An outstandingly versatile AI bot that works via things you (probably) already use (Slack, Discord, Telegram, Signal, etc) Want it easy? Buy a Mac mini ($599) or use Railway (one-click). Want it cheap? Hetzner VPS (~$5/
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Government is sitting on a ticking time bomb—and it’s not the national debt. It’s the millions of lines of COBOL running unemployment systems, tax processing, and benefits eligibility. Code written in the 1970s by people who are now in their 70s. And those people? They’re retiring
There’s a moment in every technology cycle when something shifts. Not with a press release or a keynote, but with a whisper — a growing chorus of developers saying “wait, you can do that?” Clawdbot is having that moment. In the span of weeks, it’s grown from a few
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Remember when voice assistants were just glorified egg timers? “Set a reminder,” “Play some music,” “What’s the weather?” Useful, sure—but hardly revolutionary. Voxio Bot is different. Built on real-time voice and video AI with WebRTC, Voxio Bot doesn’t just listen—it sees, thinks, and acts. It’s
There’s a moment in every generation when the shape of the future becomes clear—not in hindsight, but in real-time, for anyone willing to look. For my generation, that moment is now. And the future is being decided between exactly two countries: the United States and China. No disrespect,
AI Is Here. Can IT handle it? TL;DR: Technology transfer time (the period between "this new tech exists" and "we're actually using it in production." for enterprise software has been at 18-36 months for decades. AI compresses that to 2-8 weeks, breaking decades
Fear Tomorrow's Tools= Follow Yesterday's Rules. We're living through a strange contradiction in technology adoption. Great LLMs equipped with sophisticated agent skill can code better than 95% of developers . Yet many organizations hesitate to deploy AI agents, citing trust concerns and risk aversion. They