What the Dev?

Dave discusses real-time voice AI with Mike Pappas, CEO of Modulate. Pappas explains that voice AI involves three key technologies: speech-to-text, language models, and text-to-speech. This technology is valuable in detecting fraud, ensuring policy adherence, and routing calls efficiently.

In this episode, Dave speaks with John D'Emic, cofounder and CTO at Revenium, about the challenges organizations face in managing costs and ROI of agentic AI initiatives. John explains that the transition from pre-production to production often reveals gaps in economic visibility, leading to "agent debt" due to unanticipated costs from API calls and tool usage.

In this episode with Dave Rubinstein, Cameron Etezadi, CTO of LaunchDarkly, discussed the challenges and misconceptions around Vibe coding. He highlighted that while code production has sped up, confidence in the quality of the code has decreased, with 91% of customers being less confident.  He noted that 94% of customers are shipping more code but struggle with validation and quality.
He noted that 94% of customers are shipping more code but struggle with validation and quality.

This week, Dave discusses the issue of Zoom calls freezing despite good Wi-Fi with Shafi Khan, Principal Engineer at Cable Labs. Khan explains that the problem arises from a lack of bi-directional communication between applications and networks. Shafi introduces the  Quality by Design framework based on intent-based APIs, which allows for real-time telemetry and end-to-end metrics. He explains the use of the open-source entity Kamara to provide APIs for developers and application builders.

In this episode, Dave Rubinstein speaks with Jaya Baloo, founder, COO and CISO at cybersecurity provider AISLE, about the implications of AI models like Anthropic's Mythos, which can discover and exploit vulnerabilities. The conversation touches on the existing challenges defenders face in keeping up with the volume of vulnerabilities, suggesting that AI has not made the situation worse but rather highlighted it.