Hi! I'm Austin Lutz. I work in the collaboration and networking world—designing, building, and improving the systems people rely on to communicate. I write about AI, 5G, collaboration platforms, networking, and live broadcasting from the lens of real-world use, experimentation, and lessons learned. You'll find deep dives on collaboration tech, practical takes on AI, and behind-the-scenes looks at projects I'm actively building. Always learning. Always building.
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Where the Computer Lives
20 min readWe've spent sixty years going back and forth between owning computers and renting computing power. From IBM mainframes to public cloud and now massive AI data centers, the technology has changed, but the decisions haven't changed all that much. Here's why companies are reconsidering the cloud, what AI has to do with it, and why owning your infrastructure might actually make sense again.
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Voice Isn't Going Anywhere
19 min readYears of chatbots and voice agents that everybody hated, and why the thing everybody hated was never the phone call. It was the model behind it. That part has finally changed.
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I Tried to Beat Prediction Markets
Updated:39 min readSix weeks, thirty agents, 71,316 settled markets, and a real-money trading bot on Kalshi. Net realized P&L when I stopped, negative one dollar and fifty-seven cents. Here is everything I tried and why none of it worked.
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Why A Podcast?
Updated:12 min readWhy A Podcast?
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Let's Talk Fax Machines
17 min readIn this deep dive, we explore the engineering marvel of the T.30 protocol and why it’s fundamentally incompatible with the packet-switched world of the 2020s. We break down the June 2026 deadline and the point where AT&T’s massive copper decommissioning makes the "analog vs. digital" debate irrelevant by simply turning off the lights.
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