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Afternoon session · 2:30–2:40

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What’s Worth Building — Assistants, Apps, and Second Brains

  • Assistants
    • ChatGPT
      • The default chatbot
    • Custom GPT
      • ChatGPT, but every conversation with it comes pre-loaded with specific context so it answers a certain way
    • Agents
      • When ChatGPT uses tools and skills to perform tasks or multi-step processes unsupervised
    • Skills
      • Specific instructions for one task, pulled in when that task comes up
    • Worth building when the same questions keep coming back and the answers already live in documents you own
  • Apps
    • Software with its own screen and URL
      • An event check-in page
      • A dashboard of this week's outreach numbers
      • A practice quiz for one course
    • Worth building when a chat window is the wrong shape for the job, or other people need it running without you there
  • Second Brains
    • Your notes, files, and decisions stored so you can ask them questions instead of searching them
    • Worth building when your notes have outgrown your memory