Ian Cairns
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Building @freeplay_ai. Past work: Product & Design @Firstbase / Product lead @TwitterAPI / @Gnip / govtech / @developmentseed. Proud papa. 👧👦👧 Grateful.
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Joined March 2007
🎙️The latest Deployed podcast with @pipecat_ai creator @kwindla is full of good insights for anyone building AI voice agents for production. 🎙️. Some more of the highlights in this clip:. * WebRTC > WebSockets: If you're new to voice, you probably default to WebSockets. WebRTC
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Highly useful talk for anyone running production AI products! This was a crowded room at @aiDotEngineer . Chris Hernandez from Chime and Jeremy Silva from Freeplay share a practical Ops process to continuously improve AI products in production.
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Congrats to our friends @brightwaveio on their launch!. It's an incredible deep research product, purpose-built for investors. Check it out.
Brightwave is the future of investment research, and today we're pleased to announce the most powerful AI research platform is free to try for 14 days. From deep research reports that synthesize across hundreds of documents to interactive grids that extract structured data at
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Building voice agents or AI image analysis tools? There's a better approach than "vibes-based testing" 🎯. @freeplay_ai help speed up your iteration loop with multimodal evals, observability and experimentation. The video shows how. Here are the key tactics that actually help:
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This is the work. Every team we work with who finds success with AI products does some version of this.👇.
If I could only give people one tool for LLM Evals, it would be error analysis. Nothing else comes close. This is what Look At Your Data ™️ means. Links in reply
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RT @HamelHusain: Part 3 of 4: Don't use guardrails off the shelf. ALWAYS LOOK AT THE PROMPT. Demand to see the prompt!. .
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And if you want to go deeper:. * Check out Kwin's book! * And the @freeplay_ai / @pipecat_ai integration to make production evals easy for your voice agents
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🎙️New Deployed episode with @kwindla! Deep dive on voice agents and voice AI, including his tips for evals and more. Kwin created @pipecat_ai (the most popular open source voice agent framework) and has been building voice AI since before it was cool. Tons of practical advice
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More details here on our blog if you're curious. Use Evals to Pick the Best Model for Your Prompt in Under 5 Minutes.
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Everyone's talking about evals, but far too few AI product teams are actually using them. 😬. @freeplay_ai's playground and testing features make it easy to get started with evals. Set up and run quantitative experiments with your real production prompts in minutes. 📝 Import or
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RT @freeplay_ai: Good summary from our founder @cairns of how Freeplay speeds up AI engineering for production teams. 👇.
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Scenario 1: Fire starts inside our 3x3 foot sound proof box with no lock on it. Employee chooses to stay inside and not leave. That employee is now safe. ✅. Scenario 2: All other scenarios, normal sprinklers spray our 3x3 sound proof boxes.
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I don't often talk about government overreach but the fire inspector just made us install sprinklers in our phone booth and I can't help it 🤯🤦🏻♂️
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Just posted our recap of @aiDotEngineer World's Fair 2025. 3000+ builders, all deep into production AI systems. Energy was different this year - much more focused on the hard operational problems of making AI products actually work at scale. It was the best one yet. Two big
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ICYMI, this is a great read. As an AI PM, why you should think about *starting* with evals.
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