Dominik Ritz

Building Cookd | Software Engineering @uwaterloo

[Dominik Ritz @dom_ritz]

If you love to cook, we built something for you.

Cookd is a place to see what your friends made, save dishes you want to try, and share your own in one place.

Free, no ads, nothing paid:
https://t.co/UDTu88JXqi

Would love feedback.

[Dominik Ritz @dom_ritz]

@linecook If you're interested in a similar platform check out https://t.co/rT250c9kim

[Dominik Ritz @dom_ritz]

https://t.co/rT250c9kim is now (mostly) mobile friendly. Never been easier to post a cook 😎

[Dominik Ritz @dom_ritz]

Still early access with lots of new features coming

[Dominik Ritz @dom_ritz]

https://t.co/rT250c9kim is now live 🥳🎉

[Dominik Ritz @dom_ritz]

Made a little game similar to factorio over the weekend. It should be pretty performant since it’s built purely in rust and web assembly
https://t.co/gqa4P6DOue

[Dominik Ritz @dom_ritz]

https://t.co/rT250c9S7U coming soon...🧑‍🍳

[Dominik Ritz @dom_ritz]

@tszzl @scaling01 I’ve been using it since release and I also find the results hard to believe

[Dominik Ritz @dom_ritz]

@posedscaredcity @Angaisb_ There is already a 5.1-codex

[Sumanyu Sharma 🍫 @sumanyu]

Alexa, can you turn on the lights? Silence...

Voice agents experience silent failures. Product and engineering teams often don't have visibility into these failures as they scale up their voice agents to thousands and 10s of thousands of calls/day.

You can't listen to every call and catch these errors by hand. Even when you do listen manually, you can miss subtle mistakes.

The only way to catch silent errors is by making them loud.

Teams use @HammingAI to monitor 100% of all production calls and get Slack / Email alerts when their voice agents are silently failing in production.

[Sumanyu Sharma 🍫 @sumanyu]

I completely tanked my interview with FutureAdvisor in 2013.

But @xuster and @bolu gave me a shot to prove myself. I worked hard, learned a lot, and brought a do-whatever-it-takes attitude. @UWaterloo trains you to grind.

That mentality carried us to @ycombinator, where Jon mentored us during the summer batch. Sometimes, life comes full circle.

Jon has inspired me to open doors for others just like he did for me!

[Sumanyu Sharma 🍫 @sumanyu]

2025 Prediction: Companies pursuing AI Voice will become bigger than text.

This was a closed secret in 2024, but now it's an open secret. Lots of application layer companies leaning heavily into AI Voice are scaling very, very quickly.

Reliability remains the #1 challenge for all teams.

[Sumanyu Sharma 🍫 @sumanyu]

Welcome @dom_ritz to the @HammingAI team!

Dominik joins as a full-stack engineering intern. He previously built robots at @CarnegieMellon and is part of @CohereForAI.

Dominik has already shown an incredibly high learning rate in the first two weeks with us. I am super excited to work together with Dominik Ritz!

[Sumanyu Sharma 🍫 @sumanyu]

Enjoyed my chat with @Dpbrinkm and the @DeepgramAI team on how @HammingAI is building the future of reliable voice agents.

https://t.co/q4VibRGbS5

I talked about my time at @UWaterloo and how the pressure cooker environment prints ambitious people who start companies - like me, Martin Kess, @markstevenwai, @SisunLee, @pveen_a, etc.

I shared how the OG idea for Hamming was inspired by our time at @Tesla, @CitizenApp, and @anduriltech.

No enterprise wants to have a PR chatbot-is-hallucinating nightmare like Air Canada.

AI Voice agents can fail unexpectedly due to background noise, accents, interruptions, social engineering attacks, etc.

Automatically testing them pre-deployment and continuously monitoring them in production is the only way to gain confidence.

2025 is the year of reliable AI Voice Agents.