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Featured · Voice AI

Building human-like voice agents with Retell AI

TL;DR — A practical walkthrough of shipping a real-time voice agent on Retell AI: system & meta prompting for natural dialogue, wiring tools through webhooks, and the latency choices that keep a conversation feeling human.

Chandrasekhar Jinendran·9 min read·Jun 2026
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MCP

Governed MCP servers: tools Claude can't misuse

TL;DR — Policy layers, per-call caps, allowlists and audit trails that make autonomous tool use safe by construction.

7 min·Jun 2026
Automation

From idea to deployed AI MVP in a weekend

TL;DR — An n8n + Claude workflow that captures, qualifies and routes leads automatically — start to deploy.

6 min·May 2026
RAG

RAG that cites its sources: FastAPI + vector search

TL;DR — How JobSignal ingests postings and answers skill queries with cited, verifiable sources.

8 min·May 2026
Agents

Designing "AI employees" that work end to end

TL;DR — The architecture behind always-on agentic systems that handle real tasks without a human in the loop.

10 min·Apr 2026
Local LLMs

Local LLM deployment with Ollama & MSTY

TL;DR — Running capable models on your own hardware — when local beats the API, and how to set it up.

7 min·Apr 2026
Prompting

System & meta prompting for reliable agents

TL;DR — The prompting patterns that make agentic behaviour predictable instead of improvised.

5 min·Mar 2026