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Staniszewski: Deploying forward deployed engineers without product feedback loops equals services
“And I feel like the second part is always frequently missed was like first, okay, if these are, you know, doing effectively a lot of the hard integration work to solve the problem, but if you don't do the second step of how you actually learn the expertise and…”
Staniszewski: Most remaining AI audio model problems are architectural
“On audio, we think a lot of the problems that still exist are on the architecture side. We want to be solely focused on solving those architecture problems so you can actually get the best quality out there.”
Staniszewski: Pure AI research advantages diminish long term without product moats
“I think that we also talk about this like in the long, long term, that advantage that we have today will hopefully still be there, but it might not be as big on just the pure research. That's why the other components, that's why the product is so important. An…”
Staniszewski: AI companies follow an evolution from model to platform to application
“And I think we are seeing that everywhere across AI companies of like, you know, the model becomes a platform, becomes application.”
Staniszewski: The hardest part of voice agents is testing deployment
“In that step, the hardest thing in any voice agent work is actual deployment of how you actually test that it works.”
Staniszewski: Taste will increasingly define the winners of AI product development
“Blend will be increasingly important, and everybody talks about taste now, how, like, taste will be the finding front of AI, and behind the buzzword, I think there is a lot of truth to that, where, yes, increasingly everybody will be able to create everything,…”
Staniszewski: Adding pauses and filler words dramatically improved voice agent performance
“We initially, we are trying to create a perfect voice agent that doesn't do any imperfections. It doesn't sound human. And then of course the obvious thing that, that, that, that was the clearest is like the ums, the pauses, and suddenly the performance of wor…”