Our team just deployed Qwen-Omni3's S2S model on our infrastructure and it is available today w/o a waitlist. I'd love to get feedback and how you think this will impact the world of chainer-apps and if S2S is actually the future. What do you think? https://models.hathora.dev/model/qwen3-omni

What is Spec-Driven Dev?: Spec-driven AI development is a method where you write a detailed specification (PRD/Requirements/etc - the "what" and "why" of your software) upfront, and then AI coding tools use that spec as the source of truth to generate, test, and validate the actual code in more manageable pieces —so you're steering the AI with clearer intent. Note - @Doug Montgomery was an advocate for getting me to test these techniques, so special shout out required! What is AI-First Dev?: This is just terminology I like to use in my own little world. It's what I'd call "Vibe Coding" with much more intention, management and realistic expectations/understanding of the capabilities of current AI. Why?: Remember the hype of "context engineering"? I like to think of Context with AI being how much information the model can manage before it degrades in quality. And, as it happens, this is the biggest limiting factor when doing full (or nearly full) AI-coding. Spec-Driven Dev is just one of many techniques to manage context, or "context engineering." How does it help with context? Picture you have a destination and the choice between a maze of roads/highways/gas-stations and car to get there (Vibe Coding) or a train on tracks with stations (Spec Driven Dev). Through various techniques based on Software-Engineering principles, in Spec-Driven Dev we are trying to keep the LLM on tracks and limit the length it has to travel before resetting its context - think reducing distractions and increasing focus. Problems?: I actually have found the platforms I've tested (such as GitHub's Spec Kit) to be over-engineered (too advanced and bulky) for the scale of apps I've had to build for clients and myself. Imagine our previous destination example - there was a better chance I'd get to the destination with the car because the train was going so slow. Hope?: A simpler Spec-Driven Dev workflow has been serving me amazingly for the past couple of months of testing. Further, I've found it to be effective, not only in more my comfort zone (backend), it has yielded very impressive results in frontend designs as well! They have some pre-built lighter weight solutions out there I believe.

Hello All, Today at 15:30 EST (20:30 GMT) we will last week's Cloudonix Velocity Training session (due to Thanksgiving messing up the session). As always, the session will be split into two parts: 🏁 **Part I - IVRs and Voice Agents: Using Container Applications and IVRs for better Voice Agent experiences** 🏁 Humans are accustomed to IVRs, in some cases, older people will get intimidated by an AI Agent that suddenly talks to them. Today we'll do a deeper dive into Cloudonix's container applications, specifically the "static runtime" and "select runtime" blocks - and how to combine these with voice agents. 🏁 **Part II - Ask Me Anything** 🏁 As always, this part will be an open-mic session, where participants are welcome to ask any question or raise any topic, that is directly or indirectly related to telephony, VoIP, AI Voice, building smarter agents, etc. Registration is required - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/6D63tRaYSDihkJtUlpNp-A Looking forward to meeting some of your later today. Regards, Nir S

A new player (videosdk.live) in the market for Open-Source Voice AI Agents in comparison with LiveKit and Pipecat as these were the only two major platforms till now and I am happy to see how easy it is to build Voice Agents with VideoSDK Made a full video about it: Build a Voice AI Agent Using Open-Source videosdk.live (Full Tutorial + Realtime Demo) ► Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b6rlgj8jGk Would love to have your feedback on this platform Nour #VideoSDKVoiceAIAgents #VideoSDKTwilioConnection #VoiceAIAgent #VoiceAI

Our team at Hathora, plus Anthropic and Lovable and a few other folks are hosting a Hackathon in NYC at Columbia B-School in partnership with their AI Club. If you're in NYC, we'd love for you to join! Sign up here: https://luma.com/wr3v4hl2