Refactoring Podcast Building Apps with Your Voice 🎤— with Paige Bailey
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Feb 6, 2026 Paige Bailey, Developer Relations Lead at Google DeepMind and ex-Principal PM at GitHub who helped launch Copilot, demos building a webcam app entirely with voice. She walks through removing backgrounds, running a live AI interview to auto-fill profiles, choosing models, deploying to Cloud Run, and when to move from Studio to IDEs. The conversation covers team workflows, agent-driven automation, and how roles are evolving with AI.
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Live Demo: Voice-Built Hacker News Profile
- Paige demos a voice-created app that captures webcam photos, removes backgrounds, interviews users, and deploys to Cloud Run.
- The whole flow, including Gemini Live and Nano Banana, is generated and deployable in minutes.
Match Model Size To Task Complexity
- Paige notes smaller, faster models like Gemini 3 Flash can match larger models for many tasks at far lower cost.
- Choose models by testing on real examples and matching model capacity to task complexity.
Iterate Prompts By Using The Model
- Let platforms rewrite and hydrate prompts, and test initial outputs before refining.
- Use the model to draft improved prompts and then feed them back for better results.