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AI Engineering — 8 posts
Studio 8H in a Database — How the Doodle Cast Audience Got Built
AI Engineering

Studio 8H in a Database — How the Doodle Cast Audience Got Built

News-desk comedy needs an audience. Sitcom laugh tracks were wrong. Dense festival crowds were wrong. Weekend Update was right — and getting there took nine reaction types, a multi-take stem library, a density dial, a multi-model LLM planner, and one weirdly specific trick to make the goodbye bleed into the outro.

WillWin: predicting five championships nightly with one local LLM
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WillWin: predicting five championships nightly with one local LLM

WillWin is a personal technical experiment — a single open-weights 32B model running on a local RTX 5090 reads public data sources and publishes nightly probability estimates for the 2026 World Cup, Eurovision, F1, Tour de France, and the Oscars. Not a prediction service, not betting advice.

I built a voice chat with two talking dogs
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I built a voice chat with two talking dogs

A real-time voice chat on thedoodlecast.com lets you speak to Rusty and Oreo — and hear them talk back in character. Here's how it works, the stack behind it, and how to apply for early access.

Introducing Bulb — Your AI Startup Idea Lab
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Introducing Bulb — Your AI Startup Idea Lab

Got a startup idea? Bulb puts it through the gauntlet: four AI evaluators with wildly different perspectives tear it apart, debate each other, then a final verdict tells you whether to build it or bin it. Free to use, no signup required.

How We Built the TheDoodleCast AI Chatbot
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How We Built the TheDoodleCast AI Chatbot

How we built a real-time AI chatbot for TheDoodleCast using Ollama, a local RTX 5090, Cloudflare Tunnel, and a custom streaming UI — without paying per token.