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Welcome to the BuiltOnAir podcast.
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We are in season twenty three,
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episode three.
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Good to be with you.
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We’ve got myself and Aly Elosa.
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Welcome, Aly.
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Hello.
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Good to see you.
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Kamille is under the weather today,
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so she’ll be back with us next week.
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Hopefully she is feeling better.
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and uh we welcome everyone to the built
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on air podcast uh this is a live
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show we do every week and um this
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season we’ve shifted things up a little
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bit doing things a little different so uh
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keeping it more focused and and specific
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on a on a topic um each week
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we’ll do something different we’re today
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we’re gonna dive deep into a specific
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topic ali’s gonna lead us in the
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discussion on
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Live new custom extensions and vibe coding
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and the new world of AI code generation
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is taking over the world.
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So excited for that.
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I don’t think there is any big
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announcements.
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We’ll have a show in two weeks of
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getting you up to date on all the
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latest releases and everything.
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But if there is anything major,
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we’d break it for you.
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So I think it was another relatively quiet
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week.
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And so, yeah, with that,
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unless any other updates on your end,
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Allie?
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No, I don’t think so.
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Just getting,
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I was just telling Dan before we went
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live,
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we’re digging out of two and a half
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feet of snow here in the Boston area.
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So it’s been, we’re finally,
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the city’s coming back to life, I guess,
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today.
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Yeah.
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Yeah,
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I know a lot of people are there.
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I got hit pretty hard this weekend,
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so hopefully everybody is safe.
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Where I am in Utah,
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it’s the warmest winter we’ve ever had,
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so it’s kind of crazy.
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We’re getting the opposite.
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It’s nuts.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Yeah.
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Cool.
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All right.
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Let me get your screen ready.
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There you go.
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All right.
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So this is going to be very fluid.
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I figured we’d talk it all through
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together.
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So I’m sure everyone’s quite familiar with
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AI and code generation.
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People are talking about it constantly.
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And you may have heard about custom
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extensions that Airtable has been
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releasing or had in beta for a while.
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And now it’s, I believe,
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in general release.
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But there’s a kind of
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two different sides to this coin.
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One is a more advanced option,
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which is the true custom extension that
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Airtable had been talking about.
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You may remember we showed,
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there was a post on LinkedIn about like
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how to shoe rotating,
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like a product generation interface where
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they were, you know,
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had a three-D image of a shoe or
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a map, that kind of thing.
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That is all possible with custom interface
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extensions.
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But then it also requires you to install
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this thing with your terminal,
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open up your terminal,
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do all these coding things,
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and work with the SDK or software
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development kit that Airtable has.
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And that’s a bit advanced.
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And to be completely frank,
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every time I’ve tried to do it,
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I hit a roadblock.
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Even when I’m working with a programmer to
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help me install it on my computer and
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figure out how to do it, we’re like,
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I don’t know why it’s not working.
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So I’ve kind of given up every time
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I’ve tried to go down that route,
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but I’m still hopeful that I will get
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there someday.
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But all of that being said,
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there is the other side of this coin,
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which is a kind of in-between bridge way
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of getting to this custom extension
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without needing to do anything in your
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terminal.
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You can do this all right within Airtable
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itself.
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So how do you do that?
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Well, up until I believe yesterday,
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and Dan,
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maybe you might have some insight on this
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as well,
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but it was only an AI labs feature,
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but now they moved it into a beta.
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So I’m gonna just show you how to
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access or how to see if you have
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this tool.
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And if you don’t,
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I’ll show you where to go to turn
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it on.
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So first I’m gonna open up my interfaces
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And I’m gonna just create a brand new
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interface.
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By the way,
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this base that I’m working in is a
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demo you may have seen me open before.
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It’s the one I talked about in their
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table in New York City, October,
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it’s around students in classes and just
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really simple students enrollment in each
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class.
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So really basic data that I’m working with
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here.
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But what I’ve been doing here is I
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will start a new interface just to play
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with.
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and i like to use this little sparkle
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emoji for ai and i’ll say this is
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going to be my ai testing interface now
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on the dashboard layout i believe this is
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the only place you can use this tool
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right now um so i’m going to select
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dashboard and i’m going to say next now
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the table doesn’t really matter i’m going
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to go with enrollments but
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I will explain later why that doesn’t
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necessarily matter.
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We’ll go from here.
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I’m going to delete everything off of
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this.
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I don’t care about any of that right
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now.
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Now you’ll see this option to add custom.
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That is not what I’m talking about.
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This is involved with the SDK having all
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these custom development stuff.
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This is a road I have not gone
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down yet.
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That’s the bit more advanced road.
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And to get to the in-between that I’m
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talking about here,
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we wanna open up Omni and click anywhere
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on my screen.
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I’ve noticed
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This is just a side note.
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See how it says Chloe Price name?
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Like,
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I don’t know why it thinks I’ve selected
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that.
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I’m not on a page that has that
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on it.
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So I’ve noticed that recently.
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I don’t know why.
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It just seems to be picking a random
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record,
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like whatever is at the top of my
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screen before I,
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like maybe if I come here.
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Is that the table that you selected,
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the source table?
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No,
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the source table is called enrollments.
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I have no idea.
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No, there’s the Chloe Price.
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That’s not even the name of a record.
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Like,
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I have no idea where that’s coming from.
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Like,
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that might be the name of a student
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in my database.
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But yeah, that’s what I was wondering.
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Yeah.
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But but the dash name,
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I have no idea where that’s coming from.
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Like maybe Okay, so there’s a field.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Chloe Price, first name, last name.
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I think it’s just saying it’s pulling the
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field name, yeah.
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Yeah,
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it’s grabbing whatever I was clicking on
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before I opened the interface.
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I wonder if I go first name.
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And you didn’t pick the student’s table?
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Did you pick the student’s table for your
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source?
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No?
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No, I picked enrollments.
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So it’s really strange, but that is,
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it’s so odd, right?
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But it’s important to pay attention to
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what is there.
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Yeah.
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So whatever I’ve got selected on my
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interface,
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it’s going to show me there what it
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thinks I’m talking about.
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And that will become more important as we
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go down this route.
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So first thing,
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you should see this option for Tools.
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And then when you click there,
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you should see Generate an Interface
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Element.
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This, up until yesterday,
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said AI Labs next to it.
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But now it’s moved into beta.
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So I’m a little unclear as to if
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you don’t already see this,
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how you get access to it.
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That I was hoping to be able to
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guide people a little more clearly,
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but let me show you when I go
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into my admin panel.
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and I’m on the business plan,
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so I have an admin panel,
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you should be able to access the same
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settings from your workspace settings as
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well.
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When I go into my AI settings and
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scroll down,
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I have my AI labs toggle turned on.
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um and that used to be the way
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you enable this tool i’m a little unclear
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on whether that’s still the way so i
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apologize i’d love to hear from people in
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the chat if they are not seeing that
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tool and we can kind of try and
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go from there um but hopefully you do
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see this and if you don’t we can
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figure out why um i have not played
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with these tools have you played with the
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other ones
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I’ve played with the report.
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Yeah, the report was interesting.
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The web table I haven’t really needed to
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play with yet.
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But I think it could be interesting.
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It’s basically like,
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to be able to find data from the
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web.
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Like if you’re trying to like do some
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scraping or market research.
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Does that basically like create a new
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table and have a field agent that’s the
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web’s rip crawl?
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Is that what that would do?
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I believe so.
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Yeah, I believe that is the case.
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And the report,
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does that just create dashboard elements
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or does it do anything?
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No, it’s actually a PDF.
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This is something I did the other night
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with a client.
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I said,
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please generate a simple report about my
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base’s schema.
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I was trying to see if it could
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actually give me like an ERD.
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It didn’t,
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but I wonder if you asked it to
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explicitly if it would,
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but this is still pretty cool.
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You can like watch it typing it in
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real time.
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I’ve played with this very briefly.
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I literally just said,
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generate a report you think would be
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useful for me.
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And it went through my structure of my
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database and was like, oh,
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you’ve got a couple of things here you
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could work on and you could change this
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and do that and blah, blah, blah.
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So it might be interesting.
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I also asked it the other day for
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real data,
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wanted to know
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like how my pipeline was changing over
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time.
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Um,
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and it gave me some interesting charts.
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It actually put charts into the report.
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Um, so worth playing with,
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and then you can download this PDF.
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Um,
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so very cool little route to take there
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as well.
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But let’s say the custom interface
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extensions,
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we’re going to go to generate an interface
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element.
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And now I can just,
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I want to make sure I’m clicking on
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the screen and make sure it has the
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right thing,
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not that random record as the thing
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selected.
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What would you like to create?
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The sky is literally the limit with this.
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I cannot stop playing with this tool.
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Literally,
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I will be prompting it and walk away
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and go work on something else and come
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back and reprompt it and come back all
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day.
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It’s super fun.
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It’s also a little frustrating.
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But one of the coolest things that I’ve
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found that works with this,
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there’s a few things that I can highlight
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here.
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One is it really works well for kind
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of a replacement for page designer.
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And that is what I’m gonna start with
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demoing today.
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So let’s say I want a place where
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I can come and print off transcripts for
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the students in my school.
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I’m gonna start really basic with my
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prompt.
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And you can imagine if you get really,
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intricate with your prompt and more
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specific,
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things are going to look better and be
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more tailored to what you actually want.
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But most of the time I’ve kind of
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been starting broad and getting more
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specific as I go just to like kind
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of gauge what exactly the AI can do.
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So let’s say please generate me an element
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where I can select a student from a
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left hand scroll bar.
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When I select the student,
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I should see a detailed transcript of
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their enrollments and be able to click a
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button to print that transcript into a
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visually stunning PDF.
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Let’s say, please use colors of
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I don’t know,
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let’s say olive green to match the base.
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And let’s just let it go to town.
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So while it’s thinking,
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it’s going to say what it’s doing on
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the side here,
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and it’s going to say generating, blah,
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blah, blah.
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It takes a little bit of time.
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but once it’s done we’ll be able to
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either prompt it to make changes or we
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can actually dive into the source code
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ourselves and that’s something that’s new
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with this tool when they first released
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the the beta of the beta essentially of
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this little tool um you could not edit
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the source code you could view it you
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could copy it but you could then not
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load it back into Airtable in any way.
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So it’s kind of a black box in
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a way.
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But now you can.
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You can edit the code.
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You can save it.
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You can change it to what you want.
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What I’ve found myself doing is taking
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that code and giving it to a different
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LLM and saying, fix this for me.
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Because Omni’s code, while it looks good,
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on the front end,
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sometimes the code is horrible.
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Like I don’t write in React,
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but I can tell that it’s not good.
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And I’m learning.
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It’s actually been really nice.
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It’s been a good little foray for me
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to start learning React because I’ve
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always wanted to.
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So I’m really loving this.
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It’s giving me a good excuse to start
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doing that.
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So a couple of questions.
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I don’t know if you’ll get into these.
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So usually on a dashboard,
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so this doesn’t lock you down to the
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source that you selected, right?
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So it could access any of the tables?
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Yes, and that is relatively new as well.
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That’s something that’s going to be on the
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What’s New page within the last couple of
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months.
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It used to be that it could only
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access one table.
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Now it can access multiple.
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Right, let’s take a look.
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So you can see here,
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I started off with enrollments.
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It decided to switch it to students.
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Sometimes it decides to put it within this
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section.
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Sometimes it creates a new one.
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Haven’t really figured out the rhyme or
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reason.
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Sometimes I’ll tell it.
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I’ll actually write in my prompt,
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like start with the students table,
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start with the enrollments table,
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whatever it might be.
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It does make more sense to go with
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students, I think in this case,
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because we’re starting with a student and
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then viewing their enrollments underneath.
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So it tells me what it made on
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the side here.
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Sometimes it decides to put this little
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custom properties section on the side and
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sometimes it doesn’t.
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I’ve found it to be really frustrating
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when it does do the custom properties.
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It can be really weird to work with,
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and I can show you some examples as
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to why.
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But let’s actually look at what this looks
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like.
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So if I preview, and we’ll close Omni.
[00:16:32]
Let’s make it bigger as well.
[00:16:36]
Make it large.
[00:16:39]
So here I’ve got all of my students
[00:16:42]
on the left-hand side and I can see
[00:16:45]
all of their enrollments.
[00:16:47]
I can say, I wanna print this.
[00:16:50]
I don’t know,
[00:16:50]
can you see that print dialogue?
[00:16:53]
It just went dark.
[00:16:54]
Yeah, it didn’t come out.
[00:16:56]
Here,
[00:16:56]
let me stop sharing and reshare my whole
[00:16:58]
screen because I think that will make…
[00:17:05]
Oh, Kamille, thank you so much.
[00:17:07]
I just saw what you wrote.
[00:17:12]
Let’s see, entire screen.
[00:17:13]
Okay.
[00:17:13]
Yeah, there you go.
[00:17:20]
Excellent.
[00:17:21]
All right,
[00:17:21]
so when I click this print button here,
[00:17:26]
You can see it actually looks pretty nice,
[00:17:29]
not horrible.
[00:17:32]
And if this were longer,
[00:17:33]
it would scroll as appropriate,
[00:17:37]
unlike Page Designer.
[00:17:40]
So already,
[00:17:41]
we’re kind of in a good place where
[00:17:42]
it’s like, oh, wow,
[00:17:44]
I could actually just replace Page
[00:17:45]
Designer with this,
[00:17:48]
especially given that Page Designer is not
[00:17:50]
automated.
[00:17:51]
That’s really the one caveat here,
[00:17:53]
because this won’t be automated either.
[00:17:57]
but still really loving that and it’s
[00:17:59]
interesting it made this whole it makes
[00:18:02]
this a different web page um yeah
[00:18:06]
interesting yeah right like so but really
[00:18:12]
not a bad start um yeah and you
[00:18:16]
can imagine you can kind of just start
[00:18:17]
adding on to it from there um
[00:18:22]
You can even start saying things like, OK,
[00:18:26]
when I click on this class,
[00:18:29]
I can turn on the record details as
[00:18:32]
well.
[00:18:32]
So I could say,
[00:18:33]
when I click on this enrollment,
[00:18:34]
open up the detail page.
[00:18:38]
Or I can say,
[00:18:39]
I want a modal to pop up.
[00:18:44]
The other things to pay attention to on
[00:18:46]
the sidebar here are the sorting.
[00:18:50]
It respects what sorting you put.
[00:18:52]
So right now it’s got students as
[00:18:55]
alphabetical.
[00:18:55]
If I flip that,
[00:18:57]
it’s going to flip that here as well.
[00:19:00]
If I want to sort the enrollments here
[00:19:02]
by what is shown,
[00:19:05]
I can just go to my sorting enrollments.
[00:19:11]
And if I want to sort by let’s
[00:19:13]
say name.
[00:19:14]
Obviously that was already sorted by name.
[00:19:17]
Now if I flip it,
[00:19:18]
that’s going to respect that sorting as
[00:19:20]
well.
[00:19:21]
So it’s like kind of like a hybrid
[00:19:23]
between like it’s it’s all coded,
[00:19:24]
but then you do have the the ability
[00:19:27]
to mess with the sorting and what’s
[00:19:29]
filters like.
[00:19:31]
I can even say the filters here like
[00:19:33]
name does not contain Zoe will get rid
[00:19:36]
of Zoe.
[00:19:38]
Now Zoe’s gone.
[00:19:40]
So the filters work, the sorting works,
[00:19:42]
all of that’s really fun.
[00:19:43]
But it’s also something to pay attention
[00:19:45]
to because if it’s giving you something
[00:19:47]
that you don’t expect,
[00:19:48]
it might be because your filters aren’t
[00:19:51]
set correctly.
[00:19:54]
Just make sure you’re paying attention to
[00:19:56]
those settings as you’re messing with the
[00:19:58]
element.
[00:20:00]
Click on the tables dropdown again in the
[00:20:03]
data.
[00:20:05]
Okay,
[00:20:05]
so this is showing that you’re using three
[00:20:08]
tables and, but students is the main,
[00:20:15]
you can’t change like the order of those.
[00:20:18]
That’s the,
[00:20:19]
but it’s not levels like in a list
[00:20:22]
view.
[00:20:22]
It doesn’t, it’s, so I’m just curious,
[00:20:27]
like, could you,
[00:20:29]
Cause I know like in the custom extension
[00:20:31]
or maybe they change this in the more
[00:20:34]
advanced one where it is kind of locked
[00:20:36]
down to your source table and then you
[00:20:40]
can only access things through like linked
[00:20:42]
records or lookup fields or whatever.
[00:20:45]
But this one seems more free for all.
[00:20:49]
You can just have full tables or data
[00:20:54]
from multiple tables that aren’t even
[00:20:56]
linked to each other.
[00:20:56]
Yes.
[00:20:59]
That is that seems to be correct.
[00:21:03]
I’ve noticed like some really weird stuff
[00:21:06]
with these tape like these settings and
[00:21:08]
the custom properties that it sometimes
[00:21:10]
chooses to put in.
[00:21:13]
Like if you don’t have a field visible.
[00:21:17]
Like for example.
[00:21:18]
Let me see if I can find if
[00:21:22]
I have one with the custom properties.
[00:21:29]
I don’t think I do.
[00:21:31]
It’s all in a base I can’t share
[00:21:33]
right now,
[00:21:34]
but the custom properties might be like,
[00:21:37]
okay,
[00:21:37]
what field has your student in it on
[00:21:39]
the enrollments table?
[00:21:41]
and you have to choose the student’s
[00:21:43]
field, much like script settings.
[00:21:48]
You choose what the fields are.
[00:21:51]
But if the field isn’t visible,
[00:21:52]
if you don’t have it showing as a
[00:21:54]
field that this extension is using,
[00:21:58]
then it will not work.
[00:22:02]
So it’s really important to make sure you
[00:22:04]
have all the fields allowed shown here.
[00:22:07]
If I get rid of…
[00:22:11]
like the grade letter here.
[00:22:15]
See, it just disappears from my list.
[00:22:18]
I need to make sure that I’m telling
[00:22:20]
it it can use that.
[00:22:23]
If we look at the- Kamille mentions
[00:22:26]
briefly the regular custom extensions now
[00:22:29]
support multiple tables,
[00:22:30]
so that’s good to know.
[00:22:32]
That’s good.
[00:22:32]
Yeah.
[00:22:35]
Yeah,
[00:22:35]
this like hybrid experience of like the
[00:22:38]
custom code, but the configuration,
[00:22:41]
it’s kind of like a mix of no
[00:22:45]
code and full code.
[00:22:47]
Exactly.
[00:22:49]
It’s very odd.
[00:22:50]
So like this,
[00:22:52]
I just went into when I’m clicking on
[00:22:55]
this on my sidebar,
[00:22:57]
give this three little dots and say edit
[00:22:59]
source code.
[00:23:02]
And in here we can start kind of
[00:23:04]
looking at what the code is that it’s
[00:23:06]
doing to build this.
[00:23:08]
Now I’ve found it often does this where
[00:23:11]
it’ll either hard code field IDs or it’ll
[00:23:16]
be like, okay, the grade field,
[00:23:21]
is a number field, probably.
[00:23:23]
So it’ll have this weird function to
[00:23:27]
filter out everything that’s not a number
[00:23:29]
field, and then be like, OK,
[00:23:30]
only number fields are allowed to be the
[00:23:32]
grade field.
[00:23:34]
It just makes weird decisions like that.
[00:23:38]
So I’ve found that as I’m getting more
[00:23:41]
used to the type of code it generates
[00:23:44]
and like what it’s trying to do,
[00:23:47]
I’m trying to guide it in my original
[00:23:49]
prompt to be like, start from this table,
[00:23:52]
like use these fields and
[00:23:55]
then select this the related records via
[00:23:59]
this table because it’ll do really weird
[00:24:01]
things like hard code the field names and
[00:24:03]
then later on try and filter through to
[00:24:06]
find the fields and i’m like you’ve
[00:24:07]
already defined them why are you doing
[00:24:10]
that um yeah this one looks not bad
[00:24:15]
though honestly this is better than than
[00:24:18]
other ones i’ve found yeah yeah and
[00:24:24]
So I’m thinking through like what,
[00:24:25]
one of the downsides to this is so
[00:24:28]
you could copy this code,
[00:24:29]
you could run it through chat GPT,
[00:24:31]
but you couldn’t run this locally on your
[00:24:34]
machine to like fully test it with a
[00:24:36]
different, you know,
[00:24:38]
model because you wouldn’t be able to
[00:24:40]
access these variables and data.
[00:24:42]
Right.
[00:24:43]
Yeah.
[00:24:43]
Yeah.
[00:24:45]
Definitely.
[00:24:50]
You have to kind of copy,
[00:24:52]
paste it back in here, test,
[00:24:54]
and go back and forth.
[00:24:57]
So that’s probably the difference between
[00:24:58]
the custom ones where the custom you can
[00:25:02]
run locally.
[00:25:03]
Exactly.
[00:25:06]
Yeah,
[00:25:06]
this is very much what gets contained
[00:25:08]
within this interface,
[00:25:11]
this base inside of Airtable.
[00:25:15]
I can’t even duplicate this.
[00:25:17]
Like there’s no duplicate button here.
[00:25:19]
Um,
[00:25:20]
the only way to make a copy of
[00:25:22]
it I’ve found is to actually duplicate the
[00:25:23]
whole page.
[00:25:25]
Um, so that’s been a little frustrating,
[00:25:29]
but then you can,
[00:25:30]
of course you could edit the code and
[00:25:33]
then like copy code from somewhere else.
[00:25:35]
Gotcha.
[00:25:36]
Yeah.
[00:25:38]
So you could have like a dev version
[00:25:40]
and then, uh, and then.
[00:25:42]
copy that into the live version, yeah.
[00:25:44]
Exactly.
[00:25:46]
I’ve found as well,
[00:25:48]
it’s really nice with this history,
[00:25:50]
like you can roll it back really quickly.
[00:25:53]
Like if I say,
[00:25:54]
say I prompt this and I’m like,
[00:25:56]
all right, I wanna,
[00:25:57]
let’s change our colors up.
[00:25:58]
Like I wanna change it,
[00:25:59]
not from olive green.
[00:26:01]
I want,
[00:26:02]
let’s add another color into the mix or
[00:26:04]
something just to make it really a simple
[00:26:08]
prompt.
[00:26:09]
Now, this is the most important piece.
[00:26:12]
When you open Omni up,
[00:26:14]
like say I’m just clicking somewhere,
[00:26:17]
I open Omni.
[00:26:18]
Again,
[00:26:18]
it has Chloe Price name selected for some
[00:26:21]
reason.
[00:26:24]
Make sure that you first click on the
[00:26:26]
element you want to edit.
[00:26:28]
So if I wanna prompt this to make
[00:26:30]
a change to this specific element,
[00:26:33]
I wanna make sure that I’ve clicked on
[00:26:34]
it and it says custom here.
[00:26:37]
So it knows I’m asking it to make
[00:26:39]
a change about this particular element.
[00:26:42]
I can say,
[00:26:42]
please edit this element to include colors
[00:26:51]
of green and gold.
[00:27:03]
Now, this part I always do.
[00:27:04]
I don’t know if you need to or
[00:27:05]
not.
[00:27:05]
I think if you do,
[00:27:07]
if you just hit enter,
[00:27:08]
it would also work.
[00:27:10]
But I’m not sure if you need to
[00:27:11]
always have it on this generate element.
[00:27:15]
Let’s try it without it.
[00:27:16]
Yeah.
[00:27:21]
I’ve found this part to be a little
[00:27:22]
bit buggy.
[00:27:25]
It’s literally since they’ve moved it into
[00:27:28]
beta yesterday, it used to ask me.
[00:27:32]
are you okay with this plan?
[00:27:33]
It would say, here’s my plan.
[00:27:35]
I’m gonna make these changes.
[00:27:36]
And then I would need to say, okay,
[00:27:38]
go ahead.
[00:27:39]
But now it’s not asking me anymore.
[00:27:40]
It’s just like doing it.
[00:27:43]
So that’s a little frustrating.
[00:27:44]
I did like it when it was like,
[00:27:46]
here’s what I’m going to do.
[00:27:48]
Are you okay with it?
[00:27:51]
Usually in most AI environment,
[00:27:54]
you’ll have a toggle where you can ask
[00:27:58]
it to confirm each time or YOLO mode.
[00:28:09]
Yolo mode, I like that.
[00:28:10]
Yeah.
[00:28:10]
Okay, so I knew it.
[00:28:11]
If you didn’t select that and it had
[00:28:14]
the Chloe, what would it do?
[00:28:16]
If you were trying to make changes,
[00:28:18]
would it create a new one?
[00:28:20]
It would either create,
[00:28:22]
it would probably come back,
[00:28:23]
we can try it.
[00:28:25]
Sometimes it comes back and it’s like,
[00:28:26]
I don’t understand what you’re asking me.
[00:28:30]
It’ll be like,
[00:28:30]
or I’m not able to do that.
[00:28:32]
Please contact your administrator.
[00:28:35]
Or sometimes it says,
[00:28:37]
I can only edit elements that I’ve made
[00:28:39]
in this same chat conversation.
[00:28:42]
And that’s just a lie.
[00:28:44]
It’s not true.
[00:28:47]
It’s just the words that you use to
[00:28:49]
ask it to edit it.
[00:28:51]
I’ve found I change it to be,
[00:28:53]
instead of please edit this element,
[00:28:55]
I’ll say,
[00:28:55]
please update this existing element to
[00:28:58]
change the colors to whatever.
[00:29:00]
If I just change one word,
[00:29:02]
then it works.
[00:29:03]
It’s really strange, but again,
[00:29:06]
it’s in beta.
[00:29:06]
So it’s, I think only gonna get better.
[00:29:12]
Another thing I saw, so the appearance.
[00:29:15]
So one of the frustrating things about
[00:29:17]
dashboard is you can’t change the height
[00:29:19]
of the blocks.
[00:29:21]
And so at least this one gives you
[00:29:24]
different sizes.
[00:29:25]
It doesn’t allow you to drag it to
[00:29:27]
make it the size that you want,
[00:29:29]
but at least you can go to a
[00:29:31]
large size.
[00:29:33]
Yes,
[00:29:33]
you can do that and you can put
[00:29:35]
it wherever you want.
[00:29:37]
want,
[00:29:38]
you can’t put it where the numbers go.
[00:29:40]
But you can put it like next to
[00:29:42]
a chart.
[00:29:44]
It can be into the cot like it
[00:29:47]
can be next to something.
[00:29:48]
It doesn’t have to take the full width.
[00:29:54]
Another thing somebody good.
[00:29:58]
I was gonna ask, is it read only?
[00:30:00]
Or can you update records as well?
[00:30:03]
great question um you i have actually not
[00:30:07]
tried to update it within the actual
[00:30:11]
element itself but you can turn on the
[00:30:14]
ability to click into record details so
[00:30:16]
that you could edit the record in the
[00:30:19]
side sheet
[00:30:22]
That works.
[00:30:23]
I have not actually tried asking it to
[00:30:25]
give me a place to type or select
[00:30:29]
a value.
[00:30:32]
But that’s a great question.
[00:30:36]
One thing I did try the other day.
[00:30:40]
I think it probably would work.
[00:30:43]
Yeah,
[00:30:43]
if you could create your own edit record
[00:30:46]
forms.
[00:30:48]
I think probably.
[00:30:52]
There’s another example.
[00:30:55]
Let me try and find that one.
[00:30:58]
It was in here.
[00:31:00]
This is what I did for a gap
[00:31:03]
consulting group coaching session.
[00:31:05]
And we had somebody asked in the chat
[00:31:10]
if you could have a
[00:31:18]
Oh,
[00:31:18]
I guess I don’t have it in this
[00:31:20]
space.
[00:31:21]
And it will work.
[00:31:23]
It kind of does work to embed websites.
[00:31:27]
Um, which is really cool.
[00:31:30]
Oh, cool.
[00:31:31]
So it added some gold into the mix.
[00:31:34]
Looks kind of kind of ugly, but um,
[00:31:38]
so there’s there’s our revised transcript.
[00:31:43]
Um, not bad.
[00:31:46]
Ask it to allow you to edit a
[00:31:50]
student’s score or something.
[00:31:55]
I can also toggle this on.
[00:31:56]
You can do that.
[00:31:59]
But I don’t think it’ll let me do
[00:32:00]
anything.
[00:32:04]
How do you get into it?
[00:32:05]
Let’s see.
[00:32:09]
How do you get to the sidebar?
[00:32:11]
Yeah, we’ll go here.
[00:32:16]
And say,
[00:32:18]
please allow me to edit the students’
[00:32:26]
scores on their transcript.
[00:32:30]
To edit in line.
[00:32:37]
And it would be what field it’s called.
[00:32:42]
Grade number.
[00:32:51]
All right.
[00:32:53]
And if I do that,
[00:32:53]
maybe that’s what makes it ask me before.
[00:32:58]
Let’s see.
[00:33:00]
No, it’s not.
[00:33:01]
It’s just going to do it.
[00:33:04]
Oh, it added a new field.
[00:33:08]
No.
[00:33:09]
See, this is what’s so frustrating.
[00:33:11]
It’s like, okay,
[00:33:11]
my prompt was probably really poor there.
[00:33:13]
Like, that’s probably on me.
[00:33:16]
But you need to be careful about your
[00:33:17]
wording.
[00:33:18]
Like, exactly.
[00:33:19]
Yeah.
[00:33:20]
So in here,
[00:33:22]
I want to say I should be able
[00:33:26]
to, no,
[00:33:27]
I’m trying to get that to go away.
[00:33:32]
When I click on a student,
[00:33:36]
I should be able to edit their grades
[00:33:41]
directly on this transcript.
[00:33:46]
Allow me to edit the field grade number
[00:33:52]
in line.
[00:33:54]
I don’t know.
[00:33:55]
I’m still getting better at my prompting,
[00:33:57]
but you can imagine how like fun this
[00:34:04]
can be.
[00:34:05]
Just like kind of trying to see what
[00:34:06]
else it can do,
[00:34:07]
what else it can come up with.
[00:34:11]
I have a client that’s a landscape company
[00:34:16]
and one of the things I’m working on
[00:34:18]
with them is like visualizing each of
[00:34:20]
their daily routes.
[00:34:23]
So you could like literally click on a
[00:34:25]
route and it has it like shows the
[00:34:27]
road with like visualize of each house
[00:34:30]
stop along the way and like when you
[00:34:32]
mouse over a house it shows how long
[00:34:34]
was planned there,
[00:34:36]
who’s assigned to what task at that house.
[00:34:39]
it’s really,
[00:34:41]
you can do whatever you want with it,
[00:34:42]
which is so fun.
[00:34:49]
Yeah.
[00:34:49]
Um, there’s still going.
[00:34:54]
Yeah.
[00:34:54]
Right.
[00:34:56]
Um,
[00:34:58]
One thing I was also trying was like,
[00:35:00]
like a played with my wedding planner base
[00:35:03]
to see if I could get it to
[00:35:04]
like produce a seating chart.
[00:35:08]
But stuff like that.
[00:35:10]
Let’s see what it did.
[00:35:14]
Added enabled inline editing for the grade
[00:35:17]
number field added input fields and
[00:35:19]
buttons for saving and cancelling edits
[00:35:21]
directly in the table cell implemented
[00:35:23]
functionality to switch the cell content
[00:35:25]
from static display to editable mode when
[00:35:27]
clicked.
[00:35:27]
OK.
[00:35:28]
Let’s see.
[00:35:29]
Let’s try it.
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Oh look at that.
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That’s so cool.
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That’s awesome.
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Be like, actually she got an A++.
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Look at that.
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Oh my gosh.
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I didn’t think that was gonna work.
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I just, I mean that kind of experience,
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you know,
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like it just opens up the world of
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possibilities.
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It really does.
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Like that just got me so excited.
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I was like, wait, no way.
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So so cool.
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Yeah, like amazing stuff.
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So you can really turn on all sorts
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of things here too.
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So like I don’t,
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I just turned it on so that I
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could have the detail page up.
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But I don’t necessarily know when it lets
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you click on like that detail page.
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Yeah.
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Maybe if I
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Yeah, I feel like it’s not.
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Sometimes I’ve told,
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I’ve actually told Omni like,
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when I click on this thing,
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it should open the database page.
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Yeah,
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because I think there’s a code that it
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has to run to open the sidebar.
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Yeah.
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But it’s just so fascinating, this world,
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this hybrid world of, you know,
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Airtable with custom.
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Seriously.
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Yeah.
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Like you could just go forever trying to
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get all this in here.
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Let’s see what I’m just trying to figure
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out if any of these work.
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Let’s see.
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Okay.
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There’s a little bit of breaking news.
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Should we break some breaking news that
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just came in?
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Absolutely.
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Shout out to Ben Bailey who posted this
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in the, in the BuiltOnAir community,
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go open a browser and go to super
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agent.com.
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Oops.
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Sorry.
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I just stopped sharing.
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Let me share again.
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If you want, I can see.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Go for it.
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Superagent.com.
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Yeah.
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You want to share or you want me
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to?
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I’ll share.
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Superagent.com.
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It looks like it was just released today.
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So this is a product from Airtable.
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It’s essentially a whole new,
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a whole new product.
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All right.
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And so I don’t know if it’s like
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interfaces re-imagined with AI and
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everything behind it.
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I don’t know if it’s similar to,
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you know, the, um, product, uh,
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whatever the other product was called
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product builder.
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Product Central.
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Product Central.
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Yeah.
[00:38:41]
Thank you.
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Where this is like built on top.
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Yeah.
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One month free.
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So you just get a one month free
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trial.
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They don’t have a free tier.
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So we’re going to have to check this
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out.
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Because I’m curious,
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because it’s definitely like,
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I’m guessing this is what they would say,
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like, okay,
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this is what Airtable would look like if
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we started in the day of AI.
[00:39:13]
Yeah.
[00:39:16]
And just kind of like just the AI
[00:39:18]
elements of Airtable.
[00:39:20]
Interesting.
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And it looks like you’re going to have
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to pay more to get this functionality.
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It’s probably not going to be built into
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Airtable.
[00:39:31]
Yeah.
[00:39:33]
Probably not.
[00:39:35]
This is quite interesting.
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Very cool.
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Yeah.
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We’ll have to try this out.
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My guess is like you still set up
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everything in an Airtable.
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I don’t know.
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Like I wonder,
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cause if you’re paying for this,
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it doesn’t look like you have to have
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Airtables.
[00:39:59]
I don’t know how they,
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what the data layer looks like behind
[00:40:03]
this.
[00:40:09]
You don’t have access to the data layer,
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but it’s Airtable underneath,
[00:40:13]
but you don’t see it.
[00:40:14]
Right.
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But these are actually great examples.
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Like all those little,
[00:40:21]
elements,
[00:40:22]
like those are kinds of things you could
[00:40:23]
do within that vibe coding space as well.
[00:40:27]
Um,
[00:40:28]
like one of the things I’ve tried doing
[00:40:31]
is like creating like a box box and
[00:40:33]
whisker plot, um,
[00:40:35]
to figure out like distribution of data
[00:40:39]
across my database, like different,
[00:40:41]
more advanced charts, um, you can do,
[00:40:45]
which is really fun.
[00:40:47]
Um,
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But yeah, this is wild.
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Yeah.
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Makes me think of,
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I’ve been listening to this podcast called
[00:40:57]
Shell Game.
[00:41:01]
Highly recommend it.
[00:41:03]
The first season is about a guy that
[00:41:05]
makes an AI clone of himself and all
[00:41:08]
the ethical and technical challenges he
[00:41:10]
ran into along the way.
[00:41:11]
But the second season,
[00:41:13]
which is on air now,
[00:41:15]
is about him creating a company made up
[00:41:17]
of AI agents.
[00:41:21]
And it’s super funny,
[00:41:23]
very relatable if you’re in this space.
[00:41:25]
So I would highly recommend checking that
[00:41:27]
out.
[00:41:27]
Interesting.
[00:41:30]
Okay, I just signed up.
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I’ll give you a sneak peek.
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Let’s see what this looks like.
[00:41:34]
Let’s do this.
[00:41:52]
Okay,
[00:41:52]
so I’m not seeing anything Airtable
[00:41:55]
related.
[00:41:56]
So it’s- Yeah.
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Super agents.
[00:42:07]
Okay, so it’s planning.
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So we got kind of a chat bot
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UI.
[00:42:16]
So you can create different things.
[00:42:21]
I don’t see any kind of data layer.
[00:42:25]
Yeah, right.
[00:42:34]
Let’s do this one.
[00:42:36]
Okay, so let’s see super agent slides.
[00:42:40]
Let’s create some slides.
[00:42:45]
So it looks more like an asset builder
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tool.
[00:42:53]
But interesting.
[00:42:59]
Yeah, we curious like, okay,
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so they launched like a full separate
[00:43:03]
product.
[00:43:04]
So now it’s a two product company.
[00:43:06]
This is interesting what what the future
[00:43:08]
of Airtable looks like with this.
[00:43:09]
Right?
[00:43:09]
Like, okay,
[00:43:10]
so it’s basically just a way of creating
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reports?
[00:43:25]
Or like, is it any kind of?
[00:43:29]
Yeah,
[00:43:29]
so report slide deck document website.
[00:43:35]
So website builder.
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You know what’s so funny is we talked
[00:43:40]
about that website tool last week or maybe
[00:43:45]
two weeks ago.
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One of my clients actually might use it.
[00:43:49]
I was like, that actually might?
[00:43:51]
They were talking about trying to come up
[00:43:53]
with a really simple mock-up of the
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homepage.
[00:43:58]
And I was like,
[00:43:59]
maybe we could actually use that.
[00:44:03]
Found the use case.
[00:44:03]
This is kind of cool.
[00:44:04]
So this is showing all the sub agents.
[00:44:06]
So it’s out fetching data,
[00:44:10]
processing it from different locations.
[00:44:17]
Crunch base.
[00:44:22]
Yeah, it’s interesting.
[00:44:23]
But yeah, this is gonna take a while.
[00:44:24]
Yeah, but quite interesting.
[00:44:33]
Okay, now it’s doing its research.
[00:44:34]
So it does planning, researching,
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verifying, synthesizing.
[00:44:39]
So it’s got different kind of sub-agents.
[00:44:43]
You can click into each one and it’s,
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so it’s got web search agents.
[00:44:52]
So any kind of asset building, research,
[00:44:55]
modeling, report building type use cases.
[00:45:00]
It’s pretty interesting.
[00:45:03]
but it’s not,
[00:45:05]
it doesn’t appear to be like a workflow
[00:45:08]
tool.
[00:45:10]
Right.
[00:45:12]
Like your table.
[00:45:14]
So this is more,
[00:45:18]
I wonder if they realize like, okay,
[00:45:19]
we have all these search functionality
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agents, you know,
[00:45:25]
I’m not seeing a connection.
[00:45:30]
It’s kind of interesting how this plays
[00:45:34]
into their strategy.
[00:45:37]
Yeah, I’d be really interested to see.
[00:45:43]
Cool, cool.
[00:45:44]
Well, anything else on your presentation?
[00:45:47]
Anything we missed?
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Just really that the sky’s the limit.
[00:45:53]
I mean,
[00:45:54]
I’d love to hear what other people are
[00:45:56]
doing with this.
[00:46:00]
I was really surprised the other day.
[00:46:03]
We tried to have it embed a website
[00:46:06]
inside of an interface,
[00:46:07]
and that worked well for some websites,
[00:46:11]
other sites not so much.
[00:46:12]
It just showed the little frowny robot guy
[00:46:15]
that Airtable shows when it doesn’t like
[00:46:17]
it in bed.
[00:46:19]
But I really think this is going to
[00:46:22]
be kind of the way of the future,
[00:46:25]
as everyone’s saying.
[00:46:28]
Sometimes Airtable’s internal tools just
[00:46:30]
don’t quite cut it.
[00:46:32]
Another great example is I had a client
[00:46:35]
that had the timeline view,
[00:46:38]
and you can use the utilization within the
[00:46:41]
timeline to highlight it.
[00:46:42]
If somebody’s overutilized,
[00:46:44]
you can turn it red or something.
[00:46:47]
But he wanted to be like,
[00:46:48]
have it red if somebody has time off
[00:46:50]
that day and have it green if they
[00:46:52]
have an assignment that day.
[00:46:53]
And the only way to really do that
[00:46:56]
was to like have negative one for time
[00:46:58]
off and a plus one for an assignment.
[00:47:00]
And if it’s negative, be green.
[00:47:01]
If it’s positive, be, I mean, whatever.
[00:47:04]
We had to kind of work with Airtable’s
[00:47:06]
constraints.
[00:47:08]
And it didn’t look good.
[00:47:09]
It just,
[00:47:10]
we couldn’t get to where we wanted to
[00:47:11]
go.
[00:47:12]
So enter this custom interface element.
[00:47:16]
We were able to vibe code a timeline
[00:47:18]
element where we were like,
[00:47:19]
if somebody’s assignment has time off as
[00:47:21]
the label, make the day red.
[00:47:23]
And then when you click on the day,
[00:47:25]
it shows all of the assignments.
[00:47:26]
Just like a leveling up of the timeline
[00:47:28]
view.
[00:47:30]
and you can tell it like be like
[00:47:32]
make this extension look just like
[00:47:34]
airtables timeline view except make these
[00:47:36]
changes um so really fun stuff um sky’s
[00:47:42]
the limit would love to see what everyone
[00:47:43]
else is building with it yeah yeah i
[00:47:47]
know it’s cool it opens it up um
[00:47:49]
just when you’re saying like embedding
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If you can embed iframes into it,
[00:47:55]
which it sounds like it does support,
[00:47:57]
that opens up some cool stuff you could
[00:47:59]
do there.
[00:48:02]
Absolutely.
[00:48:03]
Yeah, very cool.
[00:48:03]
And I do like how you can have
[00:48:06]
multiple windows of custom extensions all
[00:48:11]
working side by side.
[00:48:13]
Yeah, really fun stuff.
[00:48:16]
Cool.
[00:48:19]
Yeah.
[00:48:20]
Yeah.
[00:48:20]
Let us know what you’re building.
[00:48:22]
Yeah.
[00:48:22]
This really,
[00:48:23]
I think is something that you wonder at
[00:48:26]
what point do they stop development on
[00:48:29]
interface builder and just really start to
[00:48:32]
push people to do this approach?
[00:48:38]
Yeah.
[00:48:38]
I, I hope they don’t, but I mean,
[00:48:43]
like I’ve found it,
[00:48:45]
to be quite frustrating in some cases.
[00:48:48]
Cause it’ll be like, oh, I did it.
[00:48:50]
I made the change that you wanted.
[00:48:52]
And I’m like, no, you didn’t.
[00:48:54]
And it still is like,
[00:48:56]
it’s not actually summing the values
[00:48:58]
correctly.
[00:48:58]
And I find myself yelling at it and
[00:49:00]
I’m like, that’s not,
[00:49:02]
that’s not gonna be helpful,
[00:49:04]
but someday it’ll get better.
[00:49:05]
Yeah.
[00:49:08]
Cool.
[00:49:08]
Cool.
[00:49:08]
Let me see.
[00:49:09]
We’re almost, let’s see on one of these.
[00:49:14]
Yeah, we’re still verifying.
[00:49:16]
So, okay.
[00:49:17]
Next week we’ll show,
[00:49:18]
I’ll show you the output of super agent
[00:49:20]
of what these come back with and see
[00:49:23]
what’s on there.
[00:49:25]
So awesome.
[00:49:26]
Thank you for showing that Ali and we
[00:49:28]
will be back with you next week.
[00:49:30]
Have a good week, everyone.
[00:49:32]
Thank you.