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I focus on realtime voice AI uses cases and nemotron's time to first token is INSANELY fast. It's become a legit option for voice use cases

I'm one of the most pro-AI support/solutions/FDE engineers you'll find, and I really don't see AI taking away support and hand holding. Even though I use AI to answer questions lar…

Are you making less than 130k total comp in NYC while doing AI stuff as an engineer? I'd highly recommend looking for a new job.

For the best experience, you'll still want it to communicate with 3rd party APIs to handle the speech to text, text to speech, and LLM.

This is more of a VAD/turn detection issue. It's gotten a lot better over the last few years, but it's a hard problem. The extra ~100ms of latency makes a huge difference otherwise…

I expected the same out come you're saying here, but in my experience this hasn't been the case. I've been researching new acoustic guitars to purchase, and I've been getting an eq…

Had the pleasure of working with Alex while at System1. Great guy. If I remember correctly I got one tiny change merged into Waterfox that's probably since been undone in the years…

@cootsnuck, if I didn't really love working with the people/company I'm at now, I'd also start my own consulting company. Once I realized you really only need 3-5 consistent custom…

It might be role-specific. I'm a solutions engineer. A large portion of my time is spent making demos for customers. LLMs have been a game-changer for me, because not only can I sp…

1000%. When the sale doesn't go through, it's the salesperson's fault. When the product doesn't work, it's the "real" engineer's fault. When everything works, the client gives you …

This is one of the few hills I will die on. After working on a team that used Phabricator for a few years and going back to GitHub when I joined a new company, it really does make …

I agree with you for many use cases, but for the use case I'm focused on (Voice AI) speed is absolutely everything. Every millisecond counts for voice, and most voice use cases don…

I'm Canadian. My parents are British. I always thought we spelt all words the same until now

Why bother doing that when a non-engineer can just change the prompt and output a different result? :shrug:

When I went through the grind, I just would open up levels.fyi and check the salaries whenever I felt like giving up. Now that I have a wife and kid, its very easy to find motivati…

Great advice. Sometimes you need to take a step back to take three steps forward. Referrals are the key.

Referrals are the key to non-FAANG jobs. I also have over 10 years of experience, with six of those years spent working under the same supervisor across two different jobs. Four of…

Your logic works out fine if you don't mind a dash of risk (e.g. from a job loss). But when I ran the numbers from my perspective it didn't seem worth it. (I might be doing my math…

I worked at the company that acquired MapQuest a few years ago. It's been bought and sold a few times, but their most popular feature is still the "print maps" button... As you can…

Unless I'm reading the wrong pricing page, Duolingo Max seems to cost $29.99/month. In my experience learning Chinese, it costs $15-20 an hour to find a decent teacher online with …

I'll add to this: If you want to practice following up but are afraid of "bugging" someone, start by wishing 1-3 people happy birthday every day. I put every person I know birthday…

Anecdote from me: I jumped from leading an engineering team for an online virtual events company to working as a solutions engineer for a WebRTC vendor. They asked for a reference …

I'm a foreigner who's live in Taiwan over the past four years. You can move here tomorrow if you want :D. You can survive with English (though your life will be easier with Mandari…

My wife teaches Chinese, and this is spot on our situation. Schools and language centers are always hiring. She usually has 1-2 private online students she tutors (generally adults…

Over the last 10 years, I've gotten every job except one through Hacker News or a referral from a co-worker I met at a job. I got way more callbacks fresh out of school as a 21-yea…