Posts Tagged "real-time-systems"

Voice Agents Don't Need to Be Faster — They Need to Feel Faster

Two agents with identical latency can feel completely different. The gap is fixable at the orchestration layer, without touching the model.

Voice Agents Don't Know When You're Done Talking

Most builders assume end-of-turn detection is a silence threshold. That model breaks in production. The fix is architectural: four probabilistic events, speculative reasoning, and everything downstream cancellable.

The Boring Stuff That Keeps AI Running at 3am

Exponential backoff, dual timeouts, SSE heartbeats, idempotency caches — the unglamorous patterns that keep LLM-powered systems running at 3am.

Sub-10ms AI Responses Without Calling the LLM

Users ask similar questions in different words. Semantic caching with pgvector turns repeated intent into instant answers — no LLM call, no embedding, no retrieval pipeline.