An update. • Following the counsel of a number of friends, the week started with a full-on Biff push. • I got Biff up, running, and deployed (thank you @foo, @seancorfield, @naomarik768, and others). After a 60-second victory party, I wilted. The stuff I have to add to Biff got overwhelming. I still don’t know how to glue together LLMs and vector databases (in or out of XTDB) from Biff. Not yet anyway. To @naomarik768’s point, building a sales funnel is central. • In the middle of the night Tuesday, I recognized the basic eelchat structure could help. Bots do have places in community structures. • Still overwhelmed, I started screwing around with webhook-based http://Make.com scenarios (I’m not affiliated with Make). They have modules that talk to pinecone, OpenAI, Auth0, and have an HTTP module for APIs that don’t yet have modules (like Stardog). Custom modules are also an option. • Webhooks don’t come with front ends. I got sick of raw HTML/CSS/JS for a client and I knew things weren’t going to get any easier. • Based on my Tuesday night epiphany and my webhook roadrash, I dove back into eelchat. I feel better knowing that I can build a set of Make scenarios serving backend functions if I can’t get anything else to work. For a rookie, this is hard. I know for most of you, watching me is watching a fish flop around out of water. This channel probably still makes sense in as much as I think I’m still headed for AWS-based Datomic — eventually. Weird that the channel is created by someone so inexperienced. The road is just much longer than I imagined. Thank heavens I now have more to work with than just my imagination.