Don't build another effin' chatbot — Web Dev Challenge S1E1

Sponsored by DataStax (https://lwj.dev/astra-db) — What could you create if you had 30 minutes to plan and 4 hours to build? Lizzie Siegle, Chance Strickland, Jack Herrington, and Jason Lengstorf took on the Web Dev Challenge to find out. #webdevelopment #challenge #ai #javascript #python #reactjs

THE CHALLENGE
Build an AI-powered app that's not another f%*#ing chatbot. So much of what we see in the AI space are variations on the chatbot interface. Carter at DataStax challenged the devs to build something different.

THE TOOL
All apps must use Astra DB as part of the final build. Astra DB provides a vector store and tools for generating vector embeddings from any data you choose. Give it a try yourself: https://lwj.dev/astra-db

THE DEVS
Lizzie Siegle (https://www.lizziesiegle.xyz)
Chance Strickland (https://chance.dev/)
Jack Herrington (‪@jherr‬)
Jason Lengstorf (‪@learnwithjason‬)

THE ADVISOR
Carter Rebasa (https://github.com/crtr0)

THE APPS
Jack's DnD Encounter Generator: https://github.com/jherr/astradb-dnd
Jason's related videos PoC: https://not-another-chatbot.netlify.app/ · https://github.com/learnwithjason/wdc...
Lizzie's Star Wars fanfic generator: https://github.com/elizabethsiegle/st...
Chance's burger generator: https://github.com/chaance/carters-bu...

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Chapters:
0:00 In this episode...
0:41 The Challenge
1:39 What are vector databases used for?
3:21 Jason's plan
4:41 Lizzie's plan
5:33 Jack's plan
5:51 Chance's plan
6:21 Building
12:08 Demo time!
12:35 Jack's app
14:37 Jason's app
16:49 Lizzie's app
18:55 Chance's app
20:43 Final thoughts