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.

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

I know you said “a little bit”, but I really don’t think things are settled at all. If the outcome of this is that Sam goes back to OpenAI and a new board is somehow assembled, that will mean very different things than the outcome where Sam, Greg and a majority of OpenAI’s staff migrate to Microsoft. And the actual outcome could be neither of those. We’re in a very weird situation, I don’t think we can really predict the future yet.

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.

It was, and that’s true. Until tomorrow’s announcement that the OpenAI board is resigning and Sam is coming back to OpenAI. Or until tomorrow’s announcement that the OpenAI board is selling to Microsoft because all of their employees are leaving. Or until tomorrow’s announcement that Elon Musk is acquiring OpenAI and making himself CEO, and then for some weird reason nobody understands Sam decides to go back to OpenAI but not Greg, or vice-versa.

We still don’t know what the outcome of the whole OpenAI strike thing is yet, and people like Ilya Sutskever keep doing things that nobody would’ve expected 24 hours previous. I would argue that it seems more likely than not that there are further strange and unpredictable events that haven’t happened yet this week.

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

Rethinking how tech can make learning better!

I think how we teach is stuck in the stone-ages, even though we as a society have learnt so much more of what works.

I have worked in the EdTech industry, and feel the opportunity to help individuals create incredible 'courses'.

I have built multiple tools and am especially looking to collaborate with people who want to deploy interesting things.

MVP: https://implicit.io/

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.

Yeah, the article is definitely bootstrapper-centric.

I think such a collection of stupid ideas lists would make for a great "anti-cheat-sheet".

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 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.

Can you give examples of voice projects where Violet excels in reducing time to ship?

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.

There code is open source: https://github.com/snipsco

Though there are about 100 repositories there. I am not sure if it is easy to put it all together.

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