Eliot Miller
Eliot Miller
TITLE:Backend Engineer
COMPANY:Gradient Labs
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Backend Engineer at Gradient Labs. Building AI support for financial services.
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How we built a real-time voice agent with Temporal: when resilience isn't the top priority
ABSTRACT
At Gradient Labs, we wanted to add voice to our AI support agent. We chose Temporal for consistency with our chat code, debuggability, and cross-deployment communication. We ran LLMs in parallel, but starting off lots of work at the same time was relatively slow. Speed is critical with a voice agent, so we traded resilience for speed - without AI engineers changing a line of code.