Birds recognizer

Looks like the AI hype isn't just hype after all.

With no prior knowledge of TensorFlow, librosa, or techniques like MFCC (Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients), I developed a working prototype in approximately 10 hours without writing a single line of code myself. Most of my time was spent resolving Python and Node.js dependency versioning issues.

The coding productivity gain is likely a 10 fold for me. When agentic coding tools will hit the market I probably will stop coding at my present work.

The project aims to recognize bird species by their vocalizations. A key challenge moving forward is how to improve the system to identify multiple bird species simultaneously within a single recording.

You can test the recognizer yourself here.

07/04/2025