Thank you! It's been super fun to work on. The challenges were more on the ESP32 side. Like getting audio to work smoothly with Opus and the audio timing challenges. This is one of the reasons I open-sourced.
It seems pointless to think that everyone should cross that C++/Audio barrier to make something cool. Using this cuts a lot of dev time and brings products out to market wayy quicker. The repo basically helps launch your AI toy brand
Not yet, but next week we should be getting a batch of PCBs with better tuned antennas. Fingers crossed if the performance is good, we will send them out to test in different regions.
If you have an nRF9151-DK though, we could provide a firmware image and SIM for you to try it out. Once you flash your board, you can use it with the platform just like I did in the video
Slightly related to this; I just wanted to ask whether all Cursor email inboxes are gated by AI agents? I've tried to contact Cursor via email a few times in the past, but haven't even received an AI response :)
Good human support is expensive. You need support agents and people that educate and manage those. It's not easy to scale up and down usually. People also hate waiting times.
AI fixes most of that... Most of the time? Clearly not, but hey.
AI doesn't fix any of that because it's not good. For example, you can easily reduce waiting times to 0 with human support by replying "can't help" to every request. So unless you have good AI support, the fact that it can reduce waiting time is not an improvement.
Same with scaling- what's hard is scaling good quality, not just scaling, so without good AI you've again gained nothing
If the reasoning was "we are growing fast and struggling to stand up more robust support so we are launching this as a temporary holdover" then I would have expected the system to have announced that it was an AI bot rather than being identified with a human name.
The only reason is that it shows up on all new tabs. It's just always there.
Backstory: My primary goal was to have a blank screen when I open a new browser tab. It helps me with context switching, to stop and think. Later I added an editable area to jot down a few quick notes before typing a URL that takes me to my next distraction :)
Thanks dang and other mods for protecting this sacred corner of the web for so long. You're the guardians of the best no-BS tech news community. It is truly an under-appreciated effort.
What kind of interesting challenges have you run into, and how have your work influenced the OpenAI's realtime API?
PS: Your github readme is quite well crafted, nowadays hard to come across.