The best, worst codebase (Interview)
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What's up friends. Welcome back. This is the change log on this show. We talked to the hackers, the leaders, and those working on the best worst code bases. Oh my gosh. Today we're joined by Jimmy Miller to discuss his experience working with a legacy code base. at his first job as a programmer. The code base was massive, hundreds of thousands of lines of C sharp and visual basic and a database with over 1000 columns. Let's just say Jimmy got into some stuff. There's even a Guilfoyle involved. And today's episode is all about Jimmy's adventures while working there. A massive thank you to our friends and our partners over at fly.io. Yes, that's the home of changelog.com. Launch your apps, launch your databases, and even launch your AI near your users. Fly is the public cloud built for developers who ship. Launch your app in five minutes at fly.io. Okay, let's do this. What's up, friends? I'm here with a new friend of ours over at Assembly AI, founder and CEO Dylan Fox. Dylan, tell me about Universal One. This is the newest, most powerful speech AI model to date.
You released this recently. Tell me more.
So Universal One is our flagship industry leading model for speech to text and various other speech understanding tasks. So it's about a year long effort that really is the culmination of like the years that we've spent building infrastructure and tooling at assembly to even train large scale speech AI models. It was trained on about 12 and a half million hours of voice data, multilingual, super wide range of domains and sources of audio data. So it's super robust model. We're seeing developers use it for extremely high accuracy, low cost, super fast speech to text and speech understanding tasks within their products, within automations, within workflows that they're building at their companies or within their products.
Very cool. So Dylan, one thing I love is this playground you have. You can go there, assemblyai.com slash playground, and you can just play around with all the things that is assembly. Is this the recommended path? Is this the try before you buy experience? Look, people do?
Yeah. So our Playground is a GUI experience over the API that's free. You can just go to it on our website, assemblyai.com slash Playground. You drop in an audio file, you can talk to the Playground. And it's a way to, in a no-code environment, interact with our models, interact with our API to see what our models and what our API can do without having to write any code. Then once you see what the models can do and you're ready to start building with the API, you can quickly transition to the API docs. Start writing code, start integrating our SDKs into your code to start leveraging our models and all our tech via our SDKs instead.
Okay. Constantly updated speech AI models at your fingertips. Well, at your API fingertips, that is. A good next step is to go to their playground. You can test out their models for free right there in the browser. Or you can get started with a $50 credit at assemblyai.com slash practical AI. Again, that's assemblyai.com slash practical AI.
So we're joined today by Jimmy Miller, host of the Future of Coding podcast. Jimmy, you wrote the best, worst blog post.
It was amazing. Nice little play on words there. Yeah, I recently wrote a blog post talking about my first job in programming, and it's the best, worst code base I ever worked in. And so, yeah, it was a really fun post and kind of blew up. I mean, you know, way more than any blog post I've written. Got like primogen on YouTube, like doing a video on it. It was really cool. Really neat to see. Top of the hacker news, all that stuff.
Yeah.
It's really fun.
Definitely resonated with me. In fact, I was like stopping to check the technologies that you listed because I literally thought maybe I had been on the same code base. And then I was like, I was all C sharp and VB. I was like, okay, mine was over here in Ruby land. But I was just like bringing up PTSD or something, you know, because... I've been in a code base like this.
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