Tagged Dyx

I gave my phone number to an AI. The naive path was Gemini Live for ~200ms speech-to-speech. That didn't survive contact with reality. Here's the three-stage pipeline I fell back to, the per-stage latency budget it forced, and the UX trick that makes 700ms feel like 300.

My phone number is on the internet, and an LLM answers it. Six months in, here are the guard-rails that actually mattered — and the one 'never do this' rule I had to soften because it contradicted the site that advertised the bot.