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Damien Tanner

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791 total appearances

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And that's very exciting because I think you can move fast and you can keep culture and keep a great culture.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And so that's why we invest a lot of our energy into the building of the company.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And what we build and what we provide right now is a... And our first product is a voice infrastructure, voice API for real-time building, real-time voice AI agents.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And this is currently a pretty hard problem.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

We focus a lot on the real-time conversational aspect.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And there's a lot of kind of...

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

wicked problems in that.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

Conversations are dynamic things and there's a lot of state changes and interruptions and back channeling and everything that happens.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And if you're a developer building an agent, it could be your sales agent, it could be a developer coding agent, and you want to add voice AI, there's a bunch of stuff you're going to bump into when you start building that.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

We kind of see our customers.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

We can kind of predict where they are on that journey, right?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

Because there's a bunch of problems that you don't kind of preempt, and then you just quickly slam into them.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And so we've solved a lot of those problems.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And so with Layer Code, you can then just take our API, plug it into your existing agent backend.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

So you can use any backend you want.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And you can use any agent LLM library you want and any LLM you want.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

So the basic example is a Next.js application that uses the Vercel AI SDK.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

We've got Python examples as well.