Readit Newsakadeb commented on Human coders are still better than LLMs antirez.com/news/153... · Posted by u/longwave
I've had this same thought that it would be nice to have an AI rubber ducky to bounce ideas off of while pair programming (so that you don't sound dumb to your coworkers & waste their time).
This is my first comment so I'm not sure how to do this but I made a BYO-API key VSCode extension that uses the OpenAI realtime API so you can have interactive voice conversations with a rubber ducky. I've been meaning to create a Show HN post about it but your comment got me excited!
In the future I want to build features to help people communicate their bugs / what strategies they've tried to fix them. If I can pull it off it would be cool if the AI ducky had a cursor that it could point and navigate to stuff as well.
Please let me know if you find it useful https://akshaytrikha.github.io/deep-learning/2025/05/23/duck...
I like the sound of that! I think youre gonna like what we are building here https://github.com/akdeb/ElatoAI
Its as if the rubber duck was actually on the desk while youre programming and if we have an MCP that can get live access to code it could give you realtime advice.
This is a cool demo but I would not let my child play with anything that talks to a cloud AI like this. Furby fever dreams made real.
I understand, is it the realtime conversational aspect or just in general you wouldn't want a child to play with a TTS-like service?
Great, until built in ads become part of the tech...
Hi Mr. teddy bear!
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Amazing, thank you for sharing. I'm interested in learning about your experience while building this :)
What kind of interesting challenges have you run into, and how have your work influenced the OpenAI's realtime API?
PS: Your github readme is quite well crafted, nowadays hard to come across.
Thank you! It's been super fun to work on. The challenges were more on the ESP32 side. Like getting audio to work smoothly with Opus and the audio timing challenges. This is one of the reasons I open-sourced.
It seems pointless to think that everyone should cross that C++/Audio barrier to make something cool. Using this cuts a lot of dev time and brings products out to market wayy quicker. The repo basically helps launch your AI toy brand
The README seems like what GPT would spit out, with all the emojis, diagrams, etc.
Not the first time I ran into it, but I did not bother commenting.
I can recognize it from far away. Thankfully I am not the only one.
The emojis are all AI. The content is a mix of me n cursor and I added the mermaid chart to make it easier to visualize the system diagram.
The circuit diagram in on figma
And demo video edited on capcut
There's plenty of things that you need to make an AI agent that I woudn't want to re-implement or copy and paste each time. The most annoying being automatic conversation history summarization (e.g. I accidentally wasted $60 with the latest OpenAI realtime model, because the costs go up very quickly as the conversation history grows). And I'm sure we'll discover more things like that in the future.