Full article in this week's The Pragmatic Engineer deepdive where we go into how all of this could be pushing hiring to return to... a pre-pandemic state (!!) newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tech-hiring-…

Voice agent cost calculator (and a couple of common calculation mistakes) Here's a spreadsheet to calculate the per-minute cost of a voice agent. I cleaned this up to share because I've had the same surprising conversation a few times lately ... 🧵

I've been building voice agents for the last 6mo and I think the chat-supervisor pattern is a game changer. Stitched model (STT-LLM-TTS) is slow, but realtime audio models aren't (yet) as smart as text. This has the best of both worlds. Here's how it works:

I was curious who’s building AI interfaces that aren’t chat. So I asked. The responses were thoughtful, wide-ranging, and honestly a bit ahead of where I expected things to be. Here’s what I learned: 1. Auto-Built UIs - AI creates the interface you need on the fly. Instead of

𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸 I see a lot of founders still building apps the same way they did before we had AI. But if they don’t adapt, they will miss out. Here’s why: The way we interact with computers is

🚨 Data drop! Our team a16z published benchmarks on revenue growth for AI startups, from our proprietary dataset The median B2B co is going 0 -> $2.1M ARR in year 1, while the median B2C co is going $0 -> $4.2M (yes, consumer startups are growing revenue faster 🤯)

First film produced by darren aronofsky and Google DeepMind , to experiment with GenAI. Mindblowing 🤯 ! blog.google/technology/goo…

🧵 Andrej Karpathy dropped the most compelling lecture at the AI startup school :) Here's my notes summarized with Opus. Main thesis: We're not in the "year of agents" — we're in the DECADE of agents. Here's the historical arc that explains why... ==== The Software Evolution Story

1/ Base44 is being acquired by Wix. There’s a lot I’d like to share - probably more than what fits in a single post. Here are some thoughts, in no particular order 🧵 (picture below - Base44's early days :))

Elon Musk's formula for success: Ego ÷ Ability < 1⁣ ⁣ When your ego exceeds your ability, you break the feedback loop to reality. Smash your ego. Internalize responsibility. Do whatever it takes.⁣ ⁣ The goal isn't glory—it's true work that serves the most people.

100% agree with this: In Praise of "Normal" Engineers charity.wtf/2025/06/19/in-…

📃The rise of context engineering "Context engineering" has been an increasingly popular term used to describe a lot of the system building that AI engineers do But what is it exactly? The definition I like: "Context engineering is building dynamic systems to provide the

everybody’s building the same thing.

Releasing first version of Voice Agents cost calculator 💰with different providers: Conversational AI Platforms, RealTime Models and Custom Pipelines Link below👇

Agentic AI Engineering: The Blueprint for Production-Grade AI Agents by Yi Zhou medium.com/generative-ai-…

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Look at these 2 UIs. One of them will 100% outperform the other for one reason: Law of Prägnanz. Here's how this psychological principle works & how to use it in your products:

there's a quiet shift happening in how we design software. we're moving from UX to AX (agentic experience). traditional UX is screen-centric. you tap a button, product reacts, job done. every session starts from zero. designers pre-plan every path with hard-coded flows. users

Just published a new article! 👇🏾 Your company will stop growing sooner than you think. The "Max MRR" metric predicts revenue plateaus based on churn and new revenue. Many thanks for pressing 🔁 and ❤️! longform.asmartbear.com/max-mrr/?utm_s…

This is how I feel about vibe coding. Any project I try that has any kind of complication has this immediate burst of progress. Things are amazing and it feels like a superpower. Then... as I add more complexity, things crash to a halt. The only projects that I think I can