4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
c70f83d04a Cost monitoring, PTT fix, Devon tuning, WEIRD pool expansion, YT thumbnails, LLM SEO, publish ep37
- Add real-time LLM/TTS cost tracking with live status bar display and post-show reports
- Fix PTT bug where Devon suggestion layout shift stopped recording via mouseleave
- Devon: facts-only during calls, full personality between calls
- Double WEIRD topic pool (109→203), bump weight to 14-25%
- Auto-generate YouTube thumbnails with bold hook text in publish pipeline
- LLM SEO: llms.txt, robots.txt for LLM crawlers, structured data, BreadcrumbList schemas
- Publish episode 37

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-15 05:33:27 -06:00
3329cf9ac2 UI cleanup, Devon overhaul, bug fixes, publish ep36
- Fix Devon double messages, add conversation persistence, voice-to-Devon when no caller
- Devon personality: weird/lovable intern on first day, handles name misspellings
- Fix caller gender/avatar mismatch (avatar seed includes gender)
- Reserve Sebastian voice for Silas, ban "eating at me" phrase harder
- Callers now hear Devon's commentary in conversation context
- CSS cleanup: expand compressed blocks, remove inline styles, fix Devon color to warm tawny
- Reaper silence threshold 7s → 6s
- Publish episode 36

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-14 16:42:21 -06:00
d3490e1521 Expand all caller topic pools, add cross-episode topic dedup, publish ep35
Massively expanded all 8 caller topic pools from ~1200 to ~2500 entries to
reduce repeat calls. Added persistent topic history (data/used_topics_history.json)
with 30-day aging to prevent cross-episode duplicates. Published episode 35.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-13 05:45:22 -06:00
f7b75fa72f Clips page, new episodes, TTS/audio improvements, publish pipeline updates
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-12 05:38:58 -06:00