Revolutionizing Audio Production with AI with Peadar Coyle

Peadar Coyle, CTO and co-founder of AudioStack, shares insights on building an AI-driven audio production company before the AI hype. He discusses the importance of understanding customer needs, the impact of AI on workflows, and the significance of team dynamics in a distributed environment. Coyle also emphasizes the value of open source contributions and offers advice for startup founders navigating the competitive landscape of AI technology.Timestamps00:00 Building AI Before the Hype03:41 Surviving the GPT wave05:57 Defensibility without mega-rounds07:30 What AudioStack actually does08:11 One-to-many: turning unscalable into scalable12:06 Thin wrappers vs thick platforms14:58 Model churn & provider neutrality19:34 Ship faster: the metric that matters24:17 Open Source Communities vs. Business Customers26:40 Scaling across locations30:25 Government advice36:05 CTO and Startup LessonsAbout PeadarPeadar Coyle is CTO and co-founder of AudioStack.Together with the Head of Engineering, he is dedicated to making AudioStack’s audio production infrastructure flexible, reliable, secure and scalable to meet the diverse ambitions of agencies, brands, publishers and AdTech.He is an authority on software engineering, data science and AI, and has been invited on multiple occasions as a contributor to steering groups on AI innovation by industry groups and the UK Government.He has long been an involved member of the Open Source community, and his core role in developing PyMC3, a Bayesian Computing Library, has supported the development of numerous scaleups around the world.With an AI-native, technical founder’s perspective, he is passionately involved in conversations about the culture of engineering and has published a series of interviews of the teams behind data science innovations at some of the world’s best-known tech disruptors (Amazon, Spotify, Etsy).Where to find PeadarAudiostack Website: http://www.audiostack.ai/Peader's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peadarcoyle/and on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Aflorithmic