Braves-Booth on Start AI Tools - Presented by Intent Solutions

LLM-as-Reducer and the Case for Killing the AI Label

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0500

A live broadcast tool shouldn’t die the moment the final out is recorded. Audiences stick around. They pull up YouTube for the post-game press conference that uploads 20 minutes later. They tune into podcasts, scroll Reddit threads, check what beat reporters and fans are saying on X. Your dashboard should meet them there.

The problem is that post-game signal comes from five different places, each with its own timing and noise floor. YouTube videos trickle in. Podcast feeds update on their own schedule (one might drop an episode at 11 PM, another at 6 AM the next day). Reddit threads sprawl with profanity, in-jokes, and takes that would make a talk-radio caller blush. Beat reporters and fans fire off takes across X at all hours. Synthesizing that into a useful surface seemed like three weeks of work.

Pre-Warmed Narratives, Stat Digests, and a Community PR

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0500

Two repos, two small wins.

Braves Booth: Kill the Spinner

The dashboard generates AI narratives about batters and pitchers in real time. That’s expensive—Groq Llama 3.3 70B takes 2–3 seconds per narrative—and it was blocking paint. Viewers opening the page mid-broadcast saw spinners.

The fix was already half-built. The event bus already emits game-discovery (when the lineup is set), batter-change, and pitcher-change events. The concurrency pool was in place. The narrative cache existed. So: pre-generate everything the moment you know the game state. On game-discovery, warm narratives for the full lineup vs the opposing starter. On batter-change, pre-generate for on-deck and in-hole. On pitcher-change, re-fetch for all visible batters.