Luke Oliff ยท Developer relations
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I'm Luke Oliff, Head of Developer Relations at Speechify. I write about docs, developer communities, and the craft of making APIs easy to build with. Original posts live here; imported posts live in the archive.
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This Last Week in AI: Aug 8, 2026OriginalCloudflare launched a browser for AI agents. Amazon and OpenAI unified plugin packaging. Five stories from This Last Week in AI.AI
Claude Fable 5 Built a Raccoon Heist Game From a TweetOriginalSimon Willison built a raccoon heist game with Claude Fable 5 from a 2022 tweet. One prompt, two images, and the model shipped a full 3D browser game.AI
AI Coding, One Year Later: What August 2025 Didn't See ComingOriginalThrowback Thursday. A year ago the best coding model had 200K context and scored 49% on SWE-bench. Today Claude Fable 5 scores 95% with 1M context. Here's the gap model by model.AI
Open Source Voice Agents Get Real-Time Speech in Hermes v0.20.0OriginalHermes Agent v0.20.0 brings streaming TTS, barge-in, on-device wake words, and pluggable STT/TTS to open source voice agents. Released August 3, 2026.Voice AI
Voice Emotion Control Moves From SSML to PromptsOriginalVoice emotion control is moving to natural language prompts. Kakao's Kanana-o scores 94.50 on the Korean InstructTTSEval benchmark.Voice AI