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Voice AI Architecture: Speech to Text to Text to Speech

Most voice agents today are not one model. They are a pipeline: speech to text, text to an LLM, text back to speech. Here's how that cascade actually works.

August 18, 2026·2 min read

Voice AI Architecture: Speech to Text to Text to Speech

Open-Weight AI Models: What Does That Actually Mean?

My aunt asked what the news about 'open-weight AI models' actually meant. Here is my attempt to explain what open weights are, how they differ from open source, and what they mean for businesses.

August 5, 2026·6 min read

Open-Weight AI Models: What Does That Actually Mean?

LiveKit vs. Vapi: Which One Should You Use for a Voice AI Product?

Vapi starts with the voice agent. LiveKit starts with the realtime session. That's the simplest way to understand the difference, and which one fits your product.

July 20, 2026·8 min read

LiveKit vs. Vapi: Which One Should You Use for a Voice AI Product?

What Is "Loop Engineering"?

Giving AI agents a repeatable work cycle, build, test, check, improve, repeat, is powerful. But the loop only stays cheap when the agent has a clear target and a way to check the result.

July 8, 2026·1 min read

What That Sensor Box on the Car Roof Really Means

A four-year-old pointed at a Waymo and shouted 'That's a LiDAR car!' I did not fully know what LiDAR was. Here is what I learned about the cars, the sensors, the data they collect, and the questions that follow.

June 26, 2026·9 min read

What That Sensor Box on the Car Roof Really Means

What Carvana Did to a Small Arizona Dealership

Same building. Same team. Completely different outcome. The PM lesson hiding in a desert town southeast of Phoenix.

June 11, 2026·2 min read

What Carvana Did to a Small Arizona Dealership

Evals: How Teams Move From Guessing to Measuring

Your AI demo can work perfectly. That still tells you very little about how it behaves in production. This is where evals come in.

June 10, 2026·2 min read

Evals: How Teams Move From Guessing to Measuring

KimWolf: Your Router Is Not the Wall You Think It Is

KimWolf caught my attention because it challenges a basic assumption: being behind the router does not always mean being safe.

May 19, 2026·8 min read

KimWolf: Your Router Is Not the Wall You Think It Is

Hermes Agent: The Self-Improving AI That Builds Its Own Playbooks

People are calling Hermes an OpenClaw competitor. I sat down to understand what it actually is and how it works under the hood.

May 12, 2026·2 min read

Hermes Agent: The Self-Improving AI That Builds Its Own Playbooks

The 27-Year-Old Bug: Under the Hood of Bugmageddon

A breakdown of the OpenBSD vulnerability that Mythos found: 27 years hidden, that could bring down a machine with one crafted packet.

May 6, 2026·8 min read

The 27-Year-Old Bug: Under the Hood of Bugmageddon

Bugmageddon: The Vulnerability Armageddon Nobody Saw Coming

AI is uncovering software flaws at a scale and speed that security teams may struggle to keep up with. Some are calling it Bugmageddon.

April 28, 2026·1 min read

Bugmageddon: The Vulnerability Armageddon Nobody Saw Coming

BlackBerry's Downfall: The Most Painful Product Case Study Ever Filmed

BlackBerry didn't die because the iPhone had better specs. It lost because it optimized for the enterprise communication device, while the smartphone was becoming a general-purpose computing platform.

March 25, 2026·2 min read

BlackBerry's Downfall: The Most Painful Product Case Study Ever Filmed

OpenClaw: How the Fastest-Growing GitHub Repo Actually Works

I dissected how OpenClaw actually works under the hood. The architecture is surprisingly simple.

February 27, 2026·2 min read

OpenClaw: How the Fastest-Growing GitHub Repo Actually Works

I went down a rabbit hole looking at AI notetaker tools.

Found 113 products. One category. A crowded market. Three products stood out to me.

February 24, 2026·1 min read

I went down a rabbit hole looking at AI notetaker tools.

Design a Product to Help People Find Contractors

Exploring how Meta could turn its social graph into a trust graph for real-world services, making local economies more reliable and human.

February 20, 2026·7 min read

Design a Product to Help People Find Contractors

Design a Product to Help People Learn a New Musical Instrument

Exploring how Meta could reimagine music learning by helping people stay connected while learning, turning solo practice into a shared journey.

February 13, 2026·6 min read

Design a Product to Help People Learn a New Musical Instrument

Design a Hair Care Service for Meta

Exploring how Meta could make hair care a shared, trusted, and convenient experience through connection and community.

February 9, 2026·9 min read

Designing a Product to Reduce Bullying in Schools (A Meta Concept)

Exploring how Meta could help students feel protected, guided, and connected when facing bullying.

January 18, 2026·5 min read

Designing a Product to Reduce Bullying in Schools (A Meta Concept)

Designing a Smart Lunchbox as a Startup

My approach to building a smart lunchbox

December 12, 2025·5 min read

Design a Product to Solve the Dog Poop Problem

Exploring how Meta could build civic sense through community, turning responsibility into pride, and making public spaces cleaner.

November 23, 2025·6 min read

Design a Product to Solve the Dog Poop Problem

WhatFood: A Conceptual Live-Food Marketplace Inspired by Whatnot

Designing a live food marketplace where watching your favorite chef cook isn't the end of the story, it's the beginning of a meal shared through connection, creativity, and commerce.

November 1, 2025·8 min read

WhatFood: A Conceptual Live-Food Marketplace Inspired by Whatnot

Design an Improved Spotify Experience for Aspiring Creators

A product design exercise exploring how Spotify could make content creation easier and more empowering for aspiring creators

October 10, 2025·6 min read

Design an Improved Spotify Experience for Aspiring Creators

Designing an Audio Product for Meta

Exploring how Meta could create an audio product that enhances social connection.

September 4, 2025·14 min read

Designing a Smart Closet: From Cluttered Chaos to Calm Confidence

Exploring how a closet manufacturer could transform everyday routines with a smart closet—reducing stress, saving time, and helping people start the day confident and in control.

September 2, 2025·13 min read

Designing a Smart Closet: From Cluttered Chaos to Calm Confidence

Designing a Smarter Bookshelf for Kids

How a simple piece of furniture can nurture independence, spark curiosity, and help kids fall in love with reading.

August 31, 2025·12 min read

How Nest Could Make Laundry Smarter, Simpler, and Even a Little Exciting

Exploring how smart home technology could transform the mundane task of laundry into a smooth, self-managing household routine that contributes to productivity and organization.

August 29, 2025·8 min read

How Nest Could Make Laundry Smarter, Simpler, and Even a Little Exciting