luke
164cad456c
Devon own stem/track/channel, per-category LLM routing, settings UI cleanup
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Audio:
- Devon gets own stem, Reaper track (Input 17), and configurable channel
- play_caller_audio accepts stem_name + channel_override params
- Reaper script checks 4 voice tracks (Host, Devon, Live Caller, AI Caller)
- postprod.py includes devon stem in gap detection
Cost optimization:
- Per-category model routing: Sonnet for caller dialog, Gemini Flash for everything else
- Estimated 65% cost reduction ($4.32 → ~$1.50/show)
- Category models configurable from settings UI
Frontend:
- Settings panel: clean routing grid for output channels, model routing grid for LLM categories
- Devon channel added to audio routing
- Share icon SVG fill fix (currentColor)
- Website homepage iterations
Publishing:
- Revert Castopod API workaround (API re-enabled)
- Fix container media path
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com >
2026-03-16 17:05:19 -06:00
luke
c70f83d04a
Cost monitoring, PTT fix, Devon tuning, WEIRD pool expansion, YT thumbnails, LLM SEO, publish ep37
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- 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
luke
3329cf9ac2
UI cleanup, Devon overhaul, bug fixes, publish ep36
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- 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
luke
6d4e490283
Caller generation overhaul, Devon intern, frontend redesign
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Caller system: structured JSON backgrounds, voice-personality matching (68 profiles),
thematic inter-caller awareness, adaptive call shapes, show pacing, returning caller
memory with relationships/arcs, post-call quality signals, 95 comedy writer entries.
Devon the Intern: persistent show character with tool-calling LLM (web search, Wikipedia,
headlines, webpage fetch), auto-monitoring, 6 API endpoints, full frontend UI.
Frontend: wrap-up nudge button, caller info panel with shape/energy/emotion badges,
keyboard shortcuts (1-0/H/W/M/D), pinned SFX, visual polish, Devon panel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com >
2026-03-14 01:54:08 -06:00
luke