Building a code reviewer that engineers actually trust is much harder than it looks. Our engineer Dana wrote up the real story behind ours, including the parts that didn't work.
Early versions ran on frontier models and hallucinated defects that weren't there, at $2.07 per
Most TTS latency benchmarks stop the clock the moment any audio arrives, silent or not. We changed ours to count that silence. The day the update shipped, @GradiumAI reported latency moved from 172 ms to 430 ms. No model change or infrastructure change. Their audio was arriving
There’s a persistent belief in startups that you have to choose between moving fast and building stable systems.
Early on, it feels true. Infrastructure looks like overhead. Monitoring, evals, rollback logic, routing discipline — none of it directly ships a new feature. When
🎉 Exciting News! Please join us in welcoming Rob Young to the Coval team!
Before joining Coval, Rob designed products at Google and Apple, and founded and led the product design studio OM. He brings a wealth of experience crafting elegant, user-centered experiences at some of
🧵 This week in conversational AI:
🎤 @OpenAI Realtime takes a big step forward — sub-500ms latency, sharper function calling, non-verbal cue detection, seamless language switching, and SIP (telephony) support. Already benchmarked at coval.ai, and the gains on
