The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The best, worst codebase (Interview)
Wed, 18 Sep 2024
Jimmy Miller talks to us about his experience with a legacy codebase at his first job as a programmer. The codebase was massive, with hundreds of thousands of lines of C# and Visual Basic, and a database with over 1,000 columns. Let's just say Jimmy got into some stuff. There's even a Gilfoyle involved. This episode is all about his adventures while working there.
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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.
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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.
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