Matthew Eernisse

@mde

Literal rock star developer. JavaScript, music, Japanese, and serial commas. 日本語でもOKです。Author and maintainer of the EJS templating lib. Developer at @usebland.

San Francisco, California USA

Joined February 2007

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Matthew Eernisse
@mde
6h
Everything commoditizes, but the context of "what makes a call good" is *incredibly* complicated and specific.
Nikkitha Shanker
@nikkithashanker
Sep 3
Article
The future of evals in Voice AI
There is one question every person building in voice AI - at every house party, event and WhatsApp group - loves to have a strong opinion on: Which layer of the voice AI stack commoditizes next, and...
Matthew Eernisse
@mde
Sep 3
Totally, this. Agents will happily keep piling feature upon feature, condition upon condition. "Oh, look what you got, two jacks!"
Captain Nȳm0 in Slumberland
@nym0_speaks
Sep 2
I think he's going to come around slowly to a much more efficient and engineered approach. (Apply software design principles to agent orchestration. It's managing complexity all the way down/up)
Matthew Eernisse
@mde
Sep 2
TBH, this is kinda dumb. Truthiness is similar but different in various languages. Empty array is falsy in Python, truthy in JS. If you hadn't bothered to check something so basic, that's on you, man.
Hunter Leath
@jhleath
Aug 31
fun story: at AWS, we were using Chef to provision our servers and we had an outage purely attributed to ruby we had some code to the effect of (i don't recall the details perfectly): ``` feature_flag = Integer(ENV.fetch("FEATURE_FLAG", "0"), 10) if feature_flag do_thing
Matthew Eernisse
@mde
Aug 31
For Trump, still seems high.
Mike Madrid
@madrid_mike
Aug 29
The ‘Nixon Line is 24% approval. The number he dropped to the day he resigned. Can Trump go that low?
Matthew Eernisse
@mde
Aug 24
I always go for the harmony anyway. So much more awesome.
Respectful Memes
@RespectfulMemes
Aug 21