engineering @ Elyos. ex @GoCardless, @bcgdv. pilot. redhead.

London, England
Joined March 2010
These are cool but using Baileys risks WhatsApp terminating your account… which sucks. I wish WhatsApp had a plan to open up access for agents like this.
we one-shotted an open-source Instinct. meet inkling: an AI that lives in your WhatsApp gc. it runs the poll and adds it to everyone's calendar. reminders, voice notes and memes too. see it, say it, self-host it. built with @ask_joon
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We’re working on making apps and agents work underground, in plant rooms, lift shafts, metro stations, etc. What are the most popular offline first apps, other than @linear? Looking for good detailed write ups on real world experiences building these.
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If only WhatsApp wasn’t so hostile to this idea….
Instinct in group chats Starting today, early access users can add Instinct to group chats. A new Instinct joins and works for the whole group. Making plans with friends usually turns into a frustrating back-and-forth over times and places. With Instinct in the group, you can explore options together, agree on a plan and get it done, all in one thread. Your friends don't even need Instinct to join in. A few things it’s good at: - Planning a weekend trip with friends, including dates and arrival times - Coordinating logistics with a roommate - Getting tickets as soon as they go on sale, then splitting the cost and sending one to everyone - Running a fantasy league, keeping standings, settling rules disputes, and reminding everyone to set their lineups - Sorting out carpool schedules - works out who’s driving each day from everyone’s schedules - Organizing Thanksgiving, keeping track of who’s bringing what and ordering the shopping list Group chats are new territory for Instinct, and we put a lot of care into getting the permissions right. Here’s how it works: - Your personal Instinct asks before connecting with the group’s Instinct. You choose which groups to trust and can remove trust at any time. - The group’s Instinct has no direct access to your personal accounts. Your Instinct checks your permissions before sharing information or taking action. - If someone new joins the group, all pending replies from your Instinct are held until you grant it permission to share with the expanded group. Group chats are available to all of our early access users, and will be rolling out to everyone soon. To join early access for this release, ask your Instinct to put you on the list. Great work with @GajanNagaraj @anuda_w and @saagarwashere
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make the claude slop stop. wtf does this mean? "The P2 splits into a valid kernel and an invalid majority — let me verify the from-record leg before fixing, since that's the one path cubic lists where the SR is referenced downstream".
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Improving a product with a chat interface is so much easier than a website. With a website, you're stuck watching screen recordings and guessing what users wanted. With a chat interface, they literally tell you in English what they want your product to do.
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This is the classic min/max tweet that adds nothing to the conversation about voice agents. The real headline: NVIDIA released an iteration on speech to speech agents. We're still a long way from these being useful in production. The voices suck, tool calling with be bad, etc
The part most people will skip: NVIDIA just made every voice AI API a commodity. OpenAI charges $0.06/min input and $0.24/min output for Realtime API. Gemini Live bills 25 tokens/second of audio. Every startup building voice agents is hemorrhaging cash on per-minute API fees to run what is fundamentally a pipeline problem: ASR → LLM → TTS, three models stitched together with latency at every seam. PersonaPlex replaces that entire pipeline with one 7B model. Runs on a single A100. Open weights, MIT license, commercial use permitted. Response latency: 0.170 seconds for turn-taking, 0.240 seconds for interruptions. It scores higher on dialog naturalness than Gemini (2.95 vs 2.80 MOS) and handles interruptions better than every commercial system they benchmarked. This tells you everything about NVIDIA’s playbook. They don’t need to charge for the model. They need you to buy the GPU. Every company that self-hosts PersonaPlex instead of paying OpenAI per-minute is another A100/H100 sale. Every voice agent startup that drops their API dependency is another enterprise GPU contract. NVIDIA open-sourced the fishing rod because they sell the lake. Built on the Moshi architecture from Kyutai, fine-tuned with under 5,000 hours of data. The voice AI margin is migrating from the application layer to the hardware layer. And NVIDIA is the only company that profits no matter which model wins. 330,000 downloads in the first month. That’s infrastructure capture disguised as generosity.
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Real world benchmarking … @DeepgramAI @covaldev @cekuraAi @livekit
At @Elyos_AI We benchmarked 13 STT providers on 100 real customer calls from the trades businesses. Not synthetic lab data. Real calls with: - Background noise & multiple speakers - UK postcodes & addresses - Regional accents (England, Scotland, Ireland) - Short confirmations to long explanations Top performers: 🥇 @DeepgramAI Flux - 15.9% WER 🥈 @soniox_ai - 16.9% WER 🥉 @Speechmatics - 17.7% WER @OpenAI Whisper? 39.8% WER - wouldn't recommend for production voice AI. What's your experience with STT models? Are we there yet?
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This is exactly what we’re doing @Elyos_AI
i know a small team in Texas making more than most “AI startups” just by fixing one boring problem for local contractors they noticed something simple: contractors can handle the work but the admin part drains their entire week quoting takes too long scheduling gets messy invoices pile up follow-ups never happen so they built a system that cleans up the admin headache: • pulls job requests from text, email, and WhatsApp • turns them into structured job details • drafts the quote • books the slot on the calendar • sends reminders • generates the invoice • collects payment • pushes everything to the accounting tool all with off-the-shelf tools stitched together cleanly they charge depending on the size of the business people try it for a month, realise they’re saving hours every week, and then they stick around now they manage the backend for 40+ trades businesses solving a painful, recurring, unsexy operational problem that owners will happily pay to make disappear everyone wants to build AI copilots for the Fortune 500 meanwhile, the people printing money are the ones automating inbox chaos for local businesses
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If the outcome of this is more people get comfortable in a terminal environment… that can only be a good thing.
Every single dev and product team I speak to in the last 30 days has moved from Cursor to Claude Code. 1. Is this permanent? 2. If so, what happens to Cursor?
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Yo @sama how do we get OpenAI support to respond to our support requests :( we’re being left on read.
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Getting real IBM Watson vibes from all these Salesforce AgentForce ads
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Why is iOS speech to text so much better at numbers, addresses and postcodes than @DeepgramAI, @OpenAI whisper, etc? It nails them - the rest are mediocre at best.
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What's your favourite compact/pancake lens for a Fujifilm X-T4? I want to go out more with my camera without having to fight with a bulky lens.
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Warehouse energy usage as 8 bit art.. yellow=solar exports green=solar consumed black=grid imports
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Software engineering is making assumptions, and then figuring out N weeks later that assumption was completely wrong.
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this from @forrestbrazeal is just wonderful. i properly laughed out loud
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