For me the big problem was how hard Hoverboard was to use - they built nicer tooling around it eventually but getting onboarded took weeks to months, getting GP

For me the big problem was how hard Hoverboard was to use - they built nicer tooling around it eventually but getting onboarded took weeks to months, getting GPUs usable enough to do LLM training would be nigh-impossible, an _extremely rigorous_ dedication to customer security meant transferring any data into and out of it for analysis was a major pain.... I remember being in the office when GPT2 dropped and thinking the entire Alexa Engine/skill routing codebase became outmoded overnight. That didn't really happen, but now that MCP servers are so easy to build I'm surprised Alexa doesn't just use tool-calling (unless it does in Alexa+?)