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I coded an Alexa Skill once. It was tedious and a garbage platform. After a while it was delisted for spurious reasons, even worse DX than Google and Apple app stores. Complete dumpster fire from start to finish.
All obsolete now that LLMs are here. I don't think any devs will miss it.
Alexa and LLMs are fundamentally not too different from each other. It's just a slightly different architecture and most importantly a much larger network.
The problem with LLMs is that they require immense compute power.
I don't see how LLMs will get into the households any time soon. It's not economical.
To train. But you can run a relatively simple one like phi-3 on quite modest hardware.