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Nice to see more from Amazon in this space.

I had the chance to see a demo a few weeks ago and it seemed impressive. Now to actually do the challenging, and build something useful with it :-)

I am hoping that the extra time will mean that they get Custom GPTs to work even better.

I thought the decision was made that Sam, Greg, etc are going to Microsoft. Isn't that what was part of Satya Nadella's announcement.

The interesting question is that now that things are a little bit settled what should we expect.

Some thoughts that seem obvious: - OpenAI to slow down progress with newer models and double down on AI safety. - Microsoft to boost the LLMs that it has - competing with Google, Amazon, and OpenAI.

As for which OpenAI employees leave - I imagine we will see answers in the next few days.

But what about... - Is the GPT Store going to still happen? - What is going to happen with the GPT-5 training? - Was there an AGI breakthrough?

The Assistants API is really cool. Together with the retrieval feature, it makes me wonder how many companies OpenAI killed by creating it.

I think this is a little different for those wanting to build a VC-backed business vs a bootstrapped business.

If you are getting investors, managing them is a full-time job - so you really need to quit what you are doing.

Perhaps we need a few separate lists of stupid ideas - for bootstrapped companies, for B2C companies, for disruptive companies, etc.

Overcoming this 'mistake' is very hard. I have faced it many times. As long as I am an engineer on something it is never good-enough for me.

I am now trying a different approach that seems to work - the essence is that after some time to give up ownership of the code. I am involved in day-to-day dev decisions, but play more of the role of the Product-Manager - talk to potential customers for pilots, and define tight scopes so that the pilots and subsequent launches are successful.

Violet implements the most common voice UX Patterns and makes using them be easier.

The typical enterprise web app can be said to consist of just navigation (i.e. menus, breadcrumbs, tabs, accordions) and forms (to collect data). Most voice apps can be broken down similarly, and Violet is really a great tool at supporting them.

Violet takes inspiration from HTML, bootstrap, Angular/React/Vue to make build Voice Apps as easy as web pages.

I created it because I have needed to create 12+ Voice projects a year for the last 3 years.

Would love to get your thoughts, questions, and any feedback.

I was just at a startup showcase and a common theme in many healthy startups was how much of a stress it put on the relationships of the founders.

I feel like we need more of a conversation about these indirect effects of startups on founders

I am the author - I did 10% of this for my job, but 90% of it has been a nights & weekends activity. I would love feedback. And feel free to ask me anything.