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Alan Nichol

  • Co-Founder and CTO, Rasa
Berlin, San Francisco
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hey it’s Alan Co-founder of @Rasa_HQ building open source conversational AI. Wannabe chef. Leidenaar. he/him
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I Gave a Smart Home Assistant an Upgraded Brain and Personality

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By Alan Nichol
| DEV Community
My heating wasn't working, so I tried the Hive smart home assistant. It can actually check your thermostat via API β€” pretty cool. It also takes 70 seconds to respond. And when you tell it you're unhappy, it says: "I notice you seem unhappy." So I rebuilt it. You can try it yourself: πŸ‘‰ Launch the demo on Hello Rasa πŸ‘‰ GitHub repo The Problems 1. Painfully slow Every response β€” even "hello" β€” took 10-12 seconds. The API call took 70 seconds with no feedback. Just... waiting. 2.
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AI Reliability At Scale: Lessons From Enterprise Deployment

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By Alan Nichol
| Forbes
Alan Nichol is Cofounder & CTO of Rasa, a conversational AI framework that has been downloaded over 50 million times. getty Enterprises have no trouble proving that generative AI can make an impressive demo. The challenge is proving that it works consistently. A proof of concept might show off a powerful language model completing tasks or holding fluid conversations, but turn that same system loose in production, and cracks start to show: missed steps, unpredictable behavior, escalating costs.
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Why Structured Automation Beats Prompt-And-Pray For Enterprise AI

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By Alan Nichol
| Forbes
Alan Nichol is Co-founder & CTO of Rasa, a conversational AI framework that has been downloaded over 50 million times. Enterprise AI leaders want systems that work, not just in demos but in real-world operations. Large language models (LLMs) promise flexible automation, capable of reasoning through complex workflows with minimal programming effort. The idea was simple: Build a prompt, connect an API and let the model handle the rest.
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