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Prompt engineering gets you a demo. Context engineering gets you a production Voice AI agent. Think of LLMs as the world’s most brilliant librarians: they’ve read almost everything ever written, but without your help, they have the short-term memory of a goldfish. For text-based chatbots, a forgetful

AWS autoscaling works well for stateless applications. And for the stateless components of VoIP and real-time systems like APIs and routing backends, AWS Auto Scaling groups (ASGs) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) do exactly what they’re designed to do. But stateful VoIP infrastructure components like FreeSWITCH

For the past several years, AV1 has been generating real excitement in the WebRTC and real-time communications space. Better compression, no licensing fees, and backing from the biggest names in tech made it look like the codec the industry had been waiting for. Then, on March 23,