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Voice AI may be sold as a model problem, but the real bottleneck is whether the system can survive real-time demands, stay reliable, and do it at a cost that makes sense.
Developers can prove the code works in a controlled environment. QA checks whether it survives the messy, unpredictable world customers actually live in.
Over time, the content a messaging campaign sends can shift away from what was originally approved. We call this campaign drift, and in business messaging, it's a real and recurring problem.
Dana Lawson leads R&D at Netlify, overseeing engineering, product, and design. From where she sits, she sees the real shift clearly: one person or a tiny team can now cover far more ground.
Luis Velasco works as a Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenAI. For him, code is becoming very cheap to produce, while building the system around the model is becoming critical.
NVIDIA’s Igor Dmochowski explained that LLMs are no longer limited just by model size or benchmark scores; the cost of longer reasoning means runtime, context length, memory use, and throughput matter just as much.
Two-thirds of organizations run AI workloads on Kubernetes, but only 7% do it daily. Katie Gamanji says the ecosystem still needs better operational maturity and standards.