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