How Parkbench Ensures Voice Quality, Part 3: Finding the Operating Envelope of Long-Form AI Speech
The script the model hears is not the script the user reads. Where We Left Off Part 1 was about catching what was missing: the truncated sentence, the dropped tail, the…
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Conversations leave traces. Conversations that actually go somewhere AI systems are getting much better at memory. They can retain preferences, reference earlier conversations, and maintain continuity across sessions in ways…
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The engineering behind making AI voices sound right, every time. The Challenge Parkbench generates audio clips every day: meditation guides, sleep aids, conversations, and long-form narrations; all using AI voice synthesis.…
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Most of our lives don’t arrive as questions. They show up as half-formed thoughts, long days, small wins, or frustrations we don’t yet know what to do with. They appear…
Keep readingParkbench.ai: A Long Year in the Middle
There is a phase of building any genuine undertaking that rarely gets much attention. It arrives after the intoxicating excitement of the beginning has worn off, but long before anything…
Keep readingAI Grift Series — Part 5 — End-Stage Enshittification
In 2023, Cory Doctorow coined the perfect term for the rot that inevitably consumes digital platforms: “enshittification”. Named the Macquarie Dictionary’s Word of the Year in 2024, it describes the process by…
Keep readingBuilding an Automated AI Bug Fixing Pipeline Using Datadog, Claude Code, Cursor and Slack
How we built a fully automated system that detects errors, suggests and applies fixes, and creates pull requests with zero human intervention 👀 Vision Imagine a world where production errors…
Keep readingTech Rot Series — Part 1 — Agile & The Commodification Of Time
The Agile software development process began as a manifesto, a welcome change from the stifling hierarchies and waterfall workflows of traditional project management. It was a revolutionary ethos — prioritizing…
Keep readingAI Grift Series — Part 3 — Exploitation Of Labor
Artificial intelligence is celebrated as a transformative force poised to reshape the fabric of human existence. Yet, lurking beneath this polished and curated narrative is a disturbing reality, where the…
Keep readingAI Grift Series — Part 2 — The AGI Lie
The term “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI) has long been a source of fascination, speculation, and confusion. It conjures visions of machines capable of thinking, reasoning, and acting like humans across…
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