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Damien Tanner

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

And actually, I think probably maybe one of the Grok with a Q llamas actually might even be a bit faster.

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

But you make a point about reliability.

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

people really notice it in voice agents when it doesn't work.

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

And especially if a business is relying on it to collect a bunch of calls for them.

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

And so that is one of the other helpful things that platforms like ours provide.

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

And there's some cool, there's a new transcription model from NVIDIA and they've got some voice models as well.

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

And so there was a great demo of fully open source local voice agent platform that was done with PipeCat, which is the Python coordination agent infra open source project.

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

And they've got a really great pattern.

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

They have a plugin pattern for their voice agent.

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

And I think that's the right pattern.

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

And we've adopted a similar, and other frameworks have done that, we've adopted a similar pattern for ours when we've rebuilt it recently.

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

And the important thing is the plugins, you know, this is kind of

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

The plugins are independent things that you can test in isolation.

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

That was the biggest problem we had with RxJS is the whole thing was kind of, you know, those mixing, kind of audio mixing things where you have like cables going everywhere.

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

It was kind of like that, right?

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

With RxJS subjects going absolutely everywhere.

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

It was kind of hard.

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

It was hard for us as humans to understand.