Notes on voice agents, agentic ops, and shipping AI
voice agents
agentic ops
OpenRouter / market
Latest writing · updated Sep 17, 2026
OpenRouter rankings in production: flash defaults, coding-agent traffic, when to escalate
Usage through mid-Sep 2026: coding/agentic apps dominate tokens, flash models carry volume, benchmarks ≠ adoption — routing rules for production.
OpenAI Agents API + GPT-Live: what changes for production phone agents
Full-duplex voice and structured handoffs against the same bars that killed the Telnyx + Vapi-style stack: latency, transfers, naturalness.
I'm ripping out my AI phone stack — here's what actually failed.
Inbound agents on business phone lines looked solved on paper. Latency, transfers, and naturalness said otherwise. Notes from tearing down Telnyx + Vapi and what I'm evaluating next.
Cursor Projects for agentic ops
Short stub: scoped projects as boundaries for agentic work — less chat forever, more shippable ops.