We talked about:

Johannes’s background
Johannes’s Open Source Spotlight demos – Refinery and Bricks
The difficulties of working with natural language processing (NLP)
Incorporating ChatGPT into a process as a heuristic
What is Bricks?
The process of starting a startup – Kern
Making the decision to go with open source
Pros and cons of launching as open source
Kern’s business model
Working with enterprises
Johannes as a salesperson
The team at Kern
Johannes’s role at Kern
How Johannes and Henrik separate responsibilities at Kern
Working with very niche use cases
The short story of how Kern got its funding
Johannes’s resource recommendation


Links:

Refinery's GitHub repo: https://github.com/code-kern-ai/refinery
Bricks' Github repo: https://github.com/code-kern-ai/bricks
Bricks Open Source Spotlight demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3rXzoLQy2U
Refinery Open Source Spotlight demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlMhN2f7YDg
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/qf4rGCEphW
Ker's Website: https://www.kern.ai


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