Building voice & agentic AI in public
I'm Chris Watkins — Bingo Codes. I spent over a decade defending systems in a SOC. Now I'm an engineer building voice-first, agentic AI out in the open: the wins, the dead ends, and everything I learn along the way. No hype, just the work.
Chris Watkins
Currently building
The umbrella company. Everything I build lives here — the brand, the infrastructure, the long-term bet on voice and agentic systems.
A culturally grounded, voice-first agent helping Black communities discover businesses and preserve culture — and helping SMBs actually grow.
An early-stage experiment in agentic tooling. Still rough, still figuring out the shape of it — sharing as it takes form.
Latest
Voice AI Engineering · 12
Voice AI engineering spans ML, real-time systems, security, and product design—here's the exact phased learning path, skill map, and public build strategy being used to make the transition from security engineering to frontier voice AI.
Voice AI Engineering · 11
Black communities shouldn't only be consumers of AI—they should be builders, owners, and beneficiaries: the case for starting with real community friction, not the latest model, and why data stewardship is a non-negotiable design constraint.
Voice AI Engineering · 10
A demo works once; a product has to survive bad networks, slow APIs, user interruptions, and real business stakes—here's how to build a latency budget, design graceful degradation, and apply security engineering discipline to voice AI at scale.
The show
Coming soonA weekly roundup of what actually matters in AI and agentic engineering — cutting through the noise — plus a monthly deep-dive series built for people starting from zero. Honest, practical, and in plain language.
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