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Introducing Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music

Our newest music generation model, Lyria 3.5, delivers significant advancements across musicality, lyrics, and vocal quality, empowering you to craft richer tracks. We’re rolling it out today in Google Flow Music, where we want to help you create songs you love, with creative control. Here’s what’s new: Improved musicality: Create richer, more complex melodic structures …

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Most of What the Agent Writes Should Be Thrown Away · Hanh D. Brown

Most of What the Agent Writes Should Be Thrown Away. A team built about a hundred versions of one loading spinner and shipped a dozen. The eighty in the bin were not waste. They were the method. prototyping iteration product-decisions engineering-management ai-tools About eighty versions of a single loading spinner went into the bin. The …

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I Replaced a 15-Minute Booking Process with a LangGraph AI Agent

a cleaning company to request a quote for cleaning a couch. They asked about its size and material and requested a picture of it. They also needed my address because travel time varies significantly across the city and therefore affects the price. After receiving the quote for the couch, I asked about apartment cleaning. This …

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Why Your Messy Codebase Is Now a Performance Problem · Hanh D. Brown

Why Your Messy Codebase Is Now a Performance Problem. Tidiness used to be an argument about taste. Now the half finished migration nobody wanted to talk about is quietly setting the speed limit for every tool you bought. technical-debt codebase-hygiene ai-tools migrations engineering-management Watch a new hire on their first week. They open the codebase, …

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Building Voice-Controlled AI Agents – KDnuggets

  Contents# Introduction# Why the Sequential Pattern Doesn’t Work# Streaming Speech-to-Text# Turn Detection: Deciding When the User Is Actually Done# Streaming the Response Into Text-to-Speech# Handling Interruption Without Breaking State# Tool Calling Mid-Conversation# How the Components Actually Connect# Conclusion # Introduction  Most people picture building a voice agent as stitching three things together: speech-to-text (STT), a large language model (LLM), and text-to-speech (TTS). Wire them …

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How Much AI Autonomy Can Your Team Actually Supervise? · Hanh D. Brown

How Much AI Autonomy Can Your Team Actually Supervise?. Every AI tool has a dial on it. Most of the argument about agents is really an argument about where that dial should sit, and almost nobody says so out loud. autonomy human-in-the-loop ai-products agent-ready-docs verification Every Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool you use has a dial …

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Who Holds the Quality Bar When Agents Write the Code · Hanh D. Brown

Agentic Engineering: Who Holds the Quality Bar When Agents Write the Code. The machine stopped needing me to fix it, and that was the unsettling part. Vibe coding raises the floor. Agentic engineering holds the bar. The spec, the taste, and the understanding still belong to you. ai-2026 agentic-engineering vibe-coding jagged-intelligence ai-agents There was a …

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How to Decode the Temperature Parameter in LLMs

ContentsThe Physics: Energy, Probability, and TemperatureThe LLM Equivalency: Vocabulary as StatesSoftmax is Boltzmann in DisguiseHow Temperature Controls the “Heat” of TextA Small but Important Detail: T = 0 Isn’t Really ZeroWatching It Happen: Real Logits from GPT-2Closing the loop The Physics: Energy, Probability, and Temperature that can exist in several different states. Each state has …

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AI Sample Efficiency Is Why Humans Still Learn Faster · Hanh D. Brown

AI Sample Efficiency Is Why Humans Still Learn Faster. We treat these models as glittering minds. The real engine is invisible: a massive black hole of data at the center, a millionfold more than a person ever sees. ai-2026 sample-efficiency ai-training-data scaling-laws ai-jobs You have probably pictured these models as glittering minds. Quick, fluent, a …

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