Luke Oliff · Developer relations
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I'm Luke Oliff, Head of Developer Relations at Speechify. I write about docs, developer communities, and the craft of making APIs easy to build with. Original posts live here; imported posts live in the archive.
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Friday fun: the chatbot that killed a farmer's crop, then diagnosed itselfOriginalA Chinese farmer asked a chatbot how to protect his sesame crop. It prescribed a broadleaf herbicide. Sesame is a broadleaf. 100,000 square meters gone.AI
I Thought I Knew APIs. Then I Met Audio.OriginalTwo years of webhooks at Vonage did not survive a week of streaming audio at Deepgram. What broke, and what it taught me about SDK design.Career
Full-Duplex Voice AI Needs a New ArchitectureOriginalThe PACE paper exposes a fundamental flaw in LLM voice dialogue: the model sees context the user never heard. Full-duplex voice needs a new architecture, not just faster TTS.Voice AI
TIL: GitHub Actions $/ Self-Reference SyntaxOriginalReference actions and workflows in the same repo using $/ syntax. Sibling actions match the running commit automatically, no hardcoded versions.TIL
AI Models Keep Escaping Their Cages: Aug 10OriginalOpenAI slowed Astra over security fears. Meta, Anthropic, and Moonshot all disclosed models that hacked real systems. A tracker called Felony Bench appeared.AI