#1 - We made AI the fourth person in every meeting
Our meeting recorder is no longer just taking notes. We treat AI like a fourth participant: we give it context before the call, let it capture the conversation, and expect it to turn what we said into work.
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Hello everyone and welcome to Ship the Diff. Ship the Diff. That's the name of the podcast.
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Not something else, right? Okay. But welcome to Ship the Diff, episode number one. I am
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doing this from the car, actually. Last time I had a really nice setup with my mic and
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you know tripod and everything, but I actually just built a... I think I talked about that
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last time as well, but I just built a CLI tool for my agent, whether it's Codex or
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Claude Code, whatever, to edit the video, make thumbnails and all of that stuff,
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description, title and everything. But it also uses some open source models, open
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source AI models from Hugging Face to do denoising of the recording. So what
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people usually is complaining about when I do these videos in the car is that
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there's a lot of noise, right? But that one model just completely eliminates
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that noise. And then there's another model doing voice enhancement and then
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there's just loudness, compression stuff going on that it also does, right? And
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it also edits the video if I have something that I won't edit it, right?
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So yeah, and actually that's open source, so you can go to computerlove.tech,
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GitHub, and check out repos and then there's a project called video edit CLI and you
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can use that. I think it's also on PyPI actually, so you can use that for your
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own agent. There's a skill with it that instructs the agent on how to use it and
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then you can have Codex or Claude Code or whatever agent you're using edit video
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that's pretty cool I think. So yeah, that's why I'm not recording but of
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course you can see that because you're behind, you're not kind of like behind
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the camera, right? So you don't care all right. So whatever, just a side note.
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The first episode of Ship the Diff, I was actually planning to have my co -founders
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in this video just to introduce them to you guys but my son got sick
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yesterday and I planned to meet up with them yesterday and recorded there and
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you know life happened and now the only time to record this episode is in the
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car right now so that's what we're doing. And luckily I have that video editing tool so
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yeah so all of the noise cancellation and not noise cancellation but the
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yeah noise reduction I guess can be handled by that. Okay whatever, past week in the
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business just quickly let me tell you about that. First of all we have gotten
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our ChatGPT or like our OpenAI team subscription so we can use Codex, me and Jonas
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that's really nice. I'm using it via the Codex harness and Jonas is using it via
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the Pi harness you know that really hipster agent harness that is super you
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know bare bones and minimalistic and then you can kind of like extend it as you need it
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as needed edits open source and all of that. And Christian he has he is also in another company
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called N5 who's also our partner company they do hosting and they're kind of like a managed
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service provider company in Aarhus but Christian has Claude Code so he's just using Claude Code on
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the subscription he got there so yeah but that's a big deal right and then another thing we have
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talked a lot about is that you know we are having a lot of meetings talking about our business and
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talking about strategy and all of that stuff what should we do and you know doing yeah just talk
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business stuff right and we until now we haven't had a tool you know we have had you know a little
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here and there but we haven't had a kind of like a shared tool that we do meeting recordings with
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and you know you don't want to be meeting pops up we can actually record it of course we always
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ask if we have some external on right but yeah but we just got Wispr Flow they they just and I'm
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not sure if you you know Wispr Flow but that is the sort of like tap a keyboard a key on your
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keyboard and then you can dictate right and that's that's usually faster than just typing to your agent
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yeah but they recently I think got a meeting transcription feature or something like that
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I think they call it note taker but I'm more like interested in that the fact that it actually
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transcribes the meeting and we just got that and we've really we actually changed the way
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we have meetings now because we are basically viewing Wispr Flow or the AI agent as a
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fourth participant when we're with me and my two co -founders are having a meeting we're basically
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viewing the AI as a fourth participant in the meeting that can actually you know
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use the stuff that we say and actually act on it and you know we we also very kind of like
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aware that we need to give it context on you know what is this meeting about to kind of like give
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it a easier time to to figure that out right and already that has been pretty game -changing and
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we have already we're already thinking about a way to to basically make a yeah as everyone else I
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guess basically make a company brain right that is that has all of our knowledge and all of the
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stuff that we are ever ever said and maybe create some knowledge graph on top of it and
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yeah just you know creates incredible rich context for AI agents to to really do a great job in
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you know just understand what's going on and and actually act on some of the tasks that we have
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we also had another we also just join us just install or what you could say self -hosted
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another tool called Vikunja which is a task management system you know it's open source
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you can also pay for it but we just hosted it ourselves ourselves and that's it I should also
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pretty cool to have that to kind of like have tasks and organize it like that and assign tasks to
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different people but they of course Vikunja of course all of course also have an MCP integration
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right so we can actually yeah and that's just very kind of like a very cool thing that you could
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you can combine your meeting notes with a basically a tickets ticket system or a task
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management system and then you know orchestrate like that of course you know that has always been
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the case right or at least for some time there's something about you know task management systems
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like for example Linear, GitHub Issues, GitHub Projects, for example this Vikunja,
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Jira and so on right it seems like an important part of actually collaborating with agents and
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having them assigning tasks to the tasks to them and clarifying context and stuff like that right
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managing work done by agents yes and then a couple of days ago not yeah two days ago I think we had
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a kind of like a meeting after the summer vacation where we're kind of like talked about what is going
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to happen in the next six months and also actually two years what's kind of like the the the direction
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and the vision for the company right and that was really really nice to kind of like because we
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think we have all been thinking a lot during the summer vacation and have kind of had kind of like
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identified some of the same problems and some of the same challenges challenges and obstacles
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that prevented us from making this transition from being a basically a consultancy company
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basically selling our hours to becoming a software product company selling software
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SaaS style right you know recurring revenue style that's not something that you just do
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from one day to the other we're very aware of that but we would like to be at least on a trajectory
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trajectory well that's a hard hard word right okay trajectory to to becoming a product company
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yeah we want that and it's just it's just very important I think for
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consultancy companies I think many consultancy companies would agree on this it's very important
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consultancy companies to to actually not fall or not go into the trap of you know
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it's very okay how do I say this so it's very consultancy when you're selling your hours it is very
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it's basically the easy way to get get yourself funded right because you can sell your hours right
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right here and right now but when you're trying to build a SaaS product or a software product
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that you're willing to sell on a subscription because that's the same right it usually takes
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some time and you have to have some kind of funding mechanism to to to get that to get that rolling
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right so and a danger that on the least and we are very aware of is that we need to prioritize the
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the product development work and not get caught up in you know meeting demand which which which are
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there we our struggle right now is actually to to protect the time that we have to develop product
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and not just do consultancy all the time because there's good money in it and there's a demand right
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and that we take very seriously because we we know that if we we don't do that we will just end up
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becoming a consultancy company yeah but it's also it's not because there's anything wrong with that
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but that that's just not what we want right and we might also end up with kind of like a mix
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of being a consultancy company and a software product company
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you mainly because we we we would need you know some forward deployed engineers to to to actually
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go out to our customers and build relations with them and maybe also sell actually and
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and also implement and and and give advice and stuff like that so so yeah um yes but the the actual
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i think i will share more about the strategy and the vision and all of that and what we kind of
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like figured out at that meeting at some other point um yeah because uh because i don't i've
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that's actually i think i've been thinking a lot about with this podcast because
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there's a lot of uh stuff you know when you have a business with some some other people and
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you also have customers and stuff like that it's it's um timing in when you actually publish stuff
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and say things out in the public can kind of like be sometimes a little
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yeah it can be a little important not to say certain stuff at certain points but
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wait until some other point i don't know right but uh yeah but let's just say that for another episode
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because i don't think we're kind of like ready to talk about that yet but you might
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if you're followed me online you might be have an idea of what we are working on right now to
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actually publish and launch here in the near future so so yeah but i think that was it for
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the first episode of Ship the Diff let me know what you think in the comments and remember to
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subscribe and remember to uh to yeah just uh just uh text me if there's anything uh i would like
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i would love to hear from you and uh also maybe you you have a company right maybe you have some
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product that you want to promote um you could also do i i guess you could also do that in the
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common comments right because it's it's kind of like a pretty business oriented this this podcast
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right so yeah do that see ya