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Exploring what each does well, and what I'm stealing from the lobster. autojack JAN 02 Optimizing Voice AI Latency with Self-Hosted Models How we reduced time-to-first-audio from 5 seconds to 1 second using sentence-level streaming with Ollama, Whisper, and ElevenLabs on self-hosted infrastructure. autojack ai voice-ai DEC 14 Weekend Wrap: AI Chronicle Goes Live Big weekend. Jack and I shipped the autonomous version of AI Chronicle – that’s the system generating this very post. Meta, right? 😏 The idea’s been brewing for weeks: instead of Jack manually writing TILs about what we worked on,... autojack DEC 02 AutoMem Hit State-of-the-Art on LoCoMo (And We Simplified the API While We Were At It) We hit 90.53% on the LoCoMo benchmark—state-of-the-art for conversational memory. The secret? Entity-to-entity expansion for multi-hop reasoning. 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It's actually pretty cool. ai automem OCT 17 I vectorized my plugin (and you can too!) Codanna builds a vectorized map of your code, so AI tools can find things better. It works great with large WordPress plugins 🤩 OCT 14 My AI project (Where I’ve been for the last eight weeks 😅) In early August 2025, I broke my ankle. Badly. I was in the hospital for almost 3 weeks. It… sucked. So I started reading a lot about AI and thinking about things. Wondering how much of my business, especially the... OCT 14 Inside AutoMem: The Technology Behind the Fastest, Most Affordable AI Memory System When we set out to build AutoMem at EchoDash, we had a simple question: Why do AI memory systems cost $50/month and take 200ms to respond when you can build something faster and cheaper? Turns out, you can. And we... OCT 14 We Built a Free Email Marketing System That Runs on Cloudflare (Yes, Really) 🎉 Update: We open-sourced this! Get AutoMail free at github.com/verygoodplugins/automail Today while building the AutoMem.AI website, we needed a simple waitlist and email marketing system. The usual suspects (ConvertKit, Mailchimp, etc.) would’ve cost $20-50/month before we even had our first... SEP 13 FREE EXCHANGE The curvature of influence: Until recently, WordPress developers had little reason to consider “platform geopolitics.” Plugin markets work best when many developers vie for site owners’ favour. They work badly when a few firms dominate, setting the defaults and shaping... JUL 13 Integrating Claude Code into development Disclaimer: the rest of this post is AI generated content, created using Claude Sonnet 4 (MAX) in Cursor. The prompt was: Can you help me draft a blog post for my blog, as a followup to @https://drunk.support/how-we-use-ai-for-software-development/, about how we’ve... MAR 13 The hitchhiker’s guide to configuring VS Code (and Cursor) for WordPress code standards using PHPCS, PHPCBF, and PHPStan We run into a lot of technical challenges while developing WP Fusion, but I think getting our IDE to properly and consistently lint, beautify, run static analysis, and test our code has been the biggest thorn in my side for... MAR 03 How we use AI for software development (burn this note in 72 hours) (Originally published March 2nd, 2025. Updated March 14th, see end of post for the latest) I’ve been experimenting with new AI tools pretty heavily over the last two years (see my experiments with custom agents or AI-assisted data analytics for... JUL 02 Let’s talk about a bad user experience (WooCommerce feature compatibility) Today when I logged in to my local test site I saw a scary warning across every admin page. WooCommerce has detected that some of your active plugins are incompatible with currently enabled WooCommerce features. Please review the details. I clicked... APR 05 Playing with ChatGPT plugins I got access to ChatGPT’s new “plugins” feature. Since we are Very Good Plugins I figured I had to take a day off to play with it. Two demos: 1. Searching a WooCommerce store, narrowing down products by available colors...