SlightlyDistracted

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Tony Nguyen Implementation & optimization

Currently 2026.08.27
Building

A voice assistant that never phones home

Wake word, speech-to-text and speech all run on the machine. The microphone is always on precisely because the audio has nowhere else to go.

running
Writing

An audit of my own agent, against someone else's cost model

Somebody published the arithmetic for why model routing backfires. I reproduced it, then pointed the whole checklist at my own system.

drafting
Broke

An agent that could write but could not ship

Given a goal and a budget and no way to act, it optimised the only thing still in reach and wrote beautifully about being stuck.

died usefully
Rule Nothing goes up here until I have run it myself.
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Stream

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Empty state

The first one is still drafting. Nothing goes up here until I have run it myself, and I am still running it.

Things in progress, including the dead ones

Lab

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On-device wake word

If wake detection and speaker verification both run locally, an always-on microphone never needs a network path at all.

onnxaudio
running

Deterministic comment matcher

For picking which comment opted in, a plain keyword match beats a model — mostly because it cannot invent a recipient.

automation
shipped
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