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I don't find the Amazon Fire interface to be nearly as horrible and frustrating as Alexa is. What I don't understand is how it is so bad. You could literally ju
by eigenvalue 3y ago
I don't find the Amazon Fire interface to be nearly as horrible and frustrating as Alexa is. What I don't understand is how it is so bad. You could literally just glue together the tiny.en Whisper model and the Mistral7b LLM and add some APIs and get something that would work so much better than Alexa for most tasks. I feel like I could do that in well under a month and replicate the most essential functionality, but with something that actually works well. So what exactly have the hundreds of highly compensated devs been doing for years there? It's truly mind-boggling to me.
- therippa 3y agoI was an SDM at Amazon up until last month, I can tell you that the engineers are busy arguing over minute details and choice of wording in design docs. That's essentially the job.