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Read about what we're up to and what we're learning along the way
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Everyone is asking what AI coding has changed. The more useful question (the one Bezos taught me to ask) is what it hasn't. Two stories from one week: a Heisenbug that turned out to be heap fragmentation no packet capture could see, and a whiskey-fueled argument with the architects behind Xet about a design choice no model would have made. The fat middle melted. The two ends got more valuable, not less.
The most important technology in a product is usually the part the customer never sees, built by someone solving a different problem. Alan Frindell spent years getting Media-over-QUIC right for live video at Facebook. A weekend conversation, six weeks, and one Seattle dinner later, it had become a standup that transcribes and illustrates itself in real time — told, fittingly, through a recording the system drew while we talked about it.
Ajit Banerjee and Zoom AI's Zhenbin Xu on how Zoom's brand-new intelligence APIs — topping Hugging Face's ASR leaderboards — are now powering SageOx's real-time speech recognition and speaker identification, and what it took to integrate them in days.