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TED Talk Audio Became Our Longstanding Test File
- Anecdote: Dillon Fox used the same TED talk audio file as a long-term regression test when building AssemblyAI.
- He and engineers still write tests around that audio sample and joke it's a legacy founder ritual.
Ship An MVP To Win Your First Customer
- Do prioritize shipping an MVP to close your first customer rather than chasing state-of-the-art research.
- Bill Gates Fox recommends focusing on product-market fit and iterating from a real customer instead of perfecting research models first.
PyTorch Leads Research To Production
- Insight: Most cutting-edge ML research is implemented in PyTorch first, making it easier to adopt new architectures.
- Assembly AI switched from TensorFlow to PyTorch because papers and example code appear far more often in PyTorch.