Talking to my coding agents: VoiceInk, Handy and other dictation apps
· 10 min read
I dictate a lot of my prompts to coding agents. I settled on Handy, but if you're starting from scratch, VoiceInk built from source is the one I'd try first.
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Notes from building real-time AI avatars at Anam: low-latency systems, product engineering and the distance between a demo and something people can use.
By Harry Smaje, product engineer at Anam.
Six agents, one Chrome: how my coding agents use a browser
· 13 min read
I've put the main ways of giving coding agents a browser through months of daily use. The ones that hold up give each agent its own tabs or its own browser.
Humanizer or Unslop? It depends who's talking
· 9 min read
I use Humanizer when a message goes out as me and Unslop for everything else. Here's a real example of each, and the rule I gave my agents.
Four days in Kruger National Park: the animals we saw
· 11 min read
Our four-day Kruger National Park safari: four leopard sightings in one day, African wild dogs, lions on the road and an hour with a cheetah mother and cubs.
Building Anam Lab for cara-4
· 4 min read
My work on the Personas home, creation flows and portrait previews for Anam's cara-4 release, helping people build and talk to an avatar of their own.
California to Canada: Disney and a Celebrity Summit cruise
· 8 min read
Disneyland, then an eight-night Celebrity Summit cruise from Los Angeles to Vancouver, with San Diego, Alcatraz, the Butchart Gardens and Capilano.
Shipping Cara 3, Anam's real-time avatar model
· 2 min read
What Anam's Cara 3 avatar model does, how it turns audio into a speaking face, and where model generation fits into a live conversation.
Hong Kong to Singapore: our Celebrity Solstice cruise
· 10 min read
Our twelve-night Celebrity Solstice cruise from Hong Kong to Singapore via Vietnam and Thailand, with Ha Long Bay, Disneyland and birthday surprises from Lucy.
What 100ms means for AI conversation latency
· 7 min read
Our testing at Anam pointed to a 200–300ms sweet spot for conversational timing. Here's why that leaves so little room for the engineering.
The demo trap
· 4 min read
What we learned from personalised customer demos, an Anam expert and a guessing game on our homepage.
Greek islands with friends: a Celebrity Infinity cruise
· 7 min read
Our first cruise with friends on Celebrity Infinity, from Santorini and Mykonos to a private Ephesus tour, with Rhodes, Hydra and a final day in Athens.
Joining Anam as Founding Product Engineer
· 3 min read
I'm joining Anam to build out the Lab product and SDK experience, bringing my background as an engineer and founder to real-time AI.
Two weeks in Japan: Tokyo Disney, Kyoto and Nara
· 10 min read
Tokyo DisneySea, Kyoto's bamboo grove and onsen, feeding deer in Nara and debating Japan's convenience stores, with four hotels that kept going up a star.
Our first cruise: Norwegian fjords on Celebrity Silhouette
· 10 min read
Our first cruise took us through the Norwegian fjords on Celebrity Silhouette, with a surprise cabin upgrade, Briksdal glacier, Loen Skylift and Ålesund.
Our honeymoon in Singapore and Bali
· 7 min read
Our Singapore and Bali honeymoon: Universal Studios, hawker food and the Night Safari, then a villa in Ubud, sunrise on Mount Batur and the beach in Nusa Dua.
Two weeks at Walt Disney World: our favourite rides
· 6 min read
Our first USA trip: Walt Disney World's four parks, Cosmic Rewind, about ten goes on Everest and meeting Sulley in matching shoes.
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