Launchpad Live Community Call, September 17

1 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Wow, that was super exciting folks. Hi, welcome to the Launchpad live community call for September. I'm Tim Miranda. I'm your host today. The primary audience for this will be existing providers on Launchpad, but this is open to the public, you maybe new to Launchpad, wanting to learn more about it.

2 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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If that's the case, awesome, thanks for coming here. I recommend you check out launchpad.io and learn more about sign up for an explore account and get building. Cool. All right, so let's get going here. So I have a couple of topics today. You just saw an awesome exciting intro to AI assistant. So we're gonna.

3 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Leave with that, we're gonna dive into what the AI assistant is. It's your right hand person when you're building. It lets you really get going conversationally with authoring your apps. And we're also gonna introduce a new plugin for agents and UX builder plugin that makes it easy to build custom components and Launchpad as well.

4 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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We'll have Q and A at the end. We have a chat available in the chat panel. Feel free to type in your questions as we go. We'll get to as many as we can in the end. And then at the end I'm gonna just wrap it up and talk about some next steps and events that are coming up as well.

5 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Cool. All right, get going here. So I'm gonna introduce my my panel today. So, we have two folks from Pega. We have Pertima who is a senior solutions architect on the provider's success team, and we have Rafael who is a principal product manager in our low code area of.

6 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Launchpad. They're each gonna show us some really cool stuff today, so take some notes, strapped in, let's let's check it out. Let's start with the AI assistant. All right. Cool. So Rafael, let's start with the big question. What is the AI assistant launchpad and why does it matter?

7 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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It's a great question, team. Think of it as a senior developer built right into Lunchpad studio. You describe what you want in plain English and it understands your application and figures out what's already there and creates what's missing. Data models, business logic, automation workflows, the entire solution. But its real mission is to help get your application to production.

8 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Air assistant continuously identifies the highest value gaps standing between your application and its production readiness. You're not configuring everything manually. You're having a conversation that most of your application wants that closer to production readiness with every interaction.

9 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Cool, so it's sort of like pair programming, but AI is doing the heavy lifting, is that it?

10 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Yes exactly. As the conversation progress, it analyzes your application and builds an understanding of your data model, business logic, automation, and workflows. It doesn't invent things in the vacuum, it works with the context of application that you're building.

11 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Cool, I am getting a note that people might not be able to hear you, so I can hear you fine. I don't know if anyone else else has that issue. But yeah, why don't we keep going here? So.

12 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Cool, so I, we're gonna use the loan Ranger app for our demonstration today, which is a mortgage app for people to get pre approvals, loan applications, things like that. So in this scenario it's just got an import from the blueprint. So Rafael, what's the 1st thing that you would do post blueprint?

13 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Most people start thinking, what is the next highest value thing to do? So I asked the AI, what should I work on next? And now, the AI reads the application, understands the context, and produces the work plan. And it all takes roughly 1st.

14 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Seconds.

15 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Cool. Alright, so I see it gave us some options here. Let's pick one of these options, the compliance review step. Can you pick that and walk us through it?

16 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Sure, sounds good. Let's ask the A assistant can you add compliance review stuff before the underwrite and the site stage? Now the assistant looks at credit decision and workflow and analyzes the underwrite and the site stage to produce the plan properly.

17 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Remember the goal is to enhance the credit decisioning workflow by introducing compliance approval steps that must be completed before a loan officer can be issued. This capability does not exist today. And as you can see, our system continuously keeps human in the loop, it asks questions. So the 1st question is, should that be a state or step so.

18 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Prepics step. The next question is which persona should be assigned to the compliance review task? So let's be compliance officer. A new persona will be created for that. And the last question is, what outcomes should the compliance review produce? And let's keep it simple and stick to approve and project. The important part here is that you stay in control, especially in a compliance workflow. You can't have AI making sense.

19 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Changes. Now, AI analyzes answers and in the context of your application and what exists in it, then it creates a plan with clear stages stating action, purposes, and outcomes of each stage.

20 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Besides on the changes implementation order that you'll see right now and share decision it has to make and underlines the risks. With air assistant, nothing happens behind the scene. Every recommendation decision and action is fully transparent and under your control.

21 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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So now it's time to bring the idea to life. We switch the build mode and we let Asia system kick off the implementation for you. Now assistant identifies the changes, reduces the list of tasks.

22 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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And completes them one by one in the correct order. So it starts with a field compliance notes field that has to be created, then it will, it's done, it creates the persona, that will compliance officer persona. Now it's working on a view that will contain the compliance.

23 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Notes filled, that's done already. Now it's working on an action. Remember? Approve or reject, and when the when it's done with the view and the action, it starts working on the process.

24 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Now it has to figure it out in the process that we're adding compliance review that it was, it has to be correctly rooted. So it figured out that there is a compliance officer work you to which it will route the case where from where compliance officer can pick it up and.

25 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Do the compliance review. It's working on the process. Then after the when process is done, it will wire it into the existing stage that's created assets, and when it's finished, it doesn't just say done. It comes back.

26 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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With the summary of the changes it has made, describe the use case, and yeah, that's exactly what is happening, and my favorite, it highlights the newly added steps in the credit decisioning workflow, which you can see right now on the screen.

27 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Oh cool. Yeah, that is impressive. So it, it does the work but also shows me what it did and actually I can kind of learn from this as well. If I was doing this myself, what would I need to do?

28 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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You will need to do all the changes manually, create an action, wire the stage with a new process, create a compliance officer persona, build the work you set the transition, and here the system just did everything for you. Okay.

29 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Cool. So, I mean, this looks good. It looks like it built a bunch of stuff, but the proof is actually in running and using the application. Can we run it and see this new compliance review step working end to end?

30 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Yes, sure. Let's have a look. So this is a preview of changes done by the A assistant, and in here I as a compliance officer, I open credit decisioning that spending assessment. I'm in a credit access stage right now and I enter the compliance review process filling the compliance notes and approve. And now the case is route back to the underwriter. That's it as simple as that, all white coded with A assistant end to end.

31 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Alright, that's cool. And by the way, I love this, this model of being able to build some stuff whether it's with the AI system or not, and then directly be able to preview it without having to do any sort of manual deployments. So, you know, my client's been asking, we've seen this, when does everyone get access to the AI assistant?

32 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Yeah, that's a very good question team and let me announce the weight is over. Starting today, every lunchpad studio user gets access to AI assistant data. No registration, NO approvals, NO barriers simply log in, open AAI assistant and start transforming ideas into applications with the power of the AI.

33 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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That's amazing news. So, show me that. How, how do I go and enable AI system beta like right now in my, in my provider?

34 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Yes, there is only one catch. You need to know the magic words, type data into the launchpad studio search box, click on the assistant to enable it, open any application and start shuffing with the AI assistant. That's it. No forms, NO approvals, NO waiting, just AI port application building. And starting next week, AI assistant will be enabled by default, but you can enable it now for yourself. Go ahead and try.

35 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Awesome, I'm gonna do that right after this. So I go and enable it and what's the 1st thing I should ask the AI assistant?

36 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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The same thing I ask, what should I work on 1st? The AI system will analyzer application identify the highest value opportunities and help you take the next step towards production readiness.

37 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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I love that. This is awesome, and this is just the beginning, right?

38 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Absolutely. The assistant is being built with our users, not just for them. Users feedback directly influences its capabilities, helping us continuously improve experience and bring more value every week.

39 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Yeah, I mean that's clearly one of the advantages of turning on this beta feature and joining this program. You're not just getting early access, you're helping shape the product. This feedback that that you'd be putting in has direct impact on the capabilities that we prioritize and Launchpad and deliver. This is cool. Alright, so do I need to know how to build applications manually to use the AI assistant?

40 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Not at all, the air assistant is designed to meet you where you are. You can work at business level describing what you want to achieve or at more technical level, it's up to you. You can specify exactly how it should be built. The air system will guide you, ask the only question it needs answered and help implement the changes for you. It is designed for you to experience it not to be explained. Right.

41 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Cool, awesome. I bet you were gonna get a lot of questions.

42 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Yeah so.

43 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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So, I will look for those and then we'll, we'll come back to this when, when we get those. This is great. Thank you so much for showing this. Appreciate it. Hope people go turn this on right after this call and start using it and sending in their feedback. Thanks a lot Rafael, this is awesome.

44 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Thank you. Alright, cool. So that was the AI assistant. Let's bring in Pratima here and we're gonna talk about the new UX builder plugin. So Pratima, welcome. Thanks for joining. Tell me more.

45 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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Okay, so launchpad UX builder is an agent plugin that helps developers expand a launchpad application with a custom component when a custom component is the only available option. A developer starts with a natural language request and the plugin guides.

46 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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The full journey, it understands the application, recommends the appropriate component, shows a design preview, generates the component, and supports publishing it into launchpad. In the guided flow, a developer can code and publish a launchpad very custom component in minutes rather than spending hours or days.

47 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Cool. So, so what, why do we build this plugin, and how is it helping the developers when they're building these custom components?

48 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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Yeah, that's a great question. So basically Constellation already gives launchpad teams a strong consistent application experience. But sometimes a requirement calls for a tailored input or layout that is not available out of the box. For someone new to custom UX, the 1st step can involve a real learning curve deciding whether they have to develop a field, a widget or template or setting up DXCB learning constellation front end patterns and P core, P Connect APIs, building and public.

49 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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Pushing safely. Those are valuable skills, but they can slow down a developer before they can create their 1st component. So UX builder brings that guidance into the workflow. So the developer can start with the experience they need and learn in the context of a real application rather than beginning with a long setup checklist.

50 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Cool. So let's say I I'm a developer, I install this UX builder plugin into my open code workspace. So what's actually happening when I ask it about building my own custom UX component? Yep.

51 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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So the demo begins with a natural language requests such as build a custom UX component for my launch launchpad app. So the agent 1st establishes the launch connection with launchpad MCP with apple MCP connection with the application. It discovers the relevant case types, data types, fields, etc. So it knows where a component could belong, which data it should use and how it should.

52 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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Should look. And before recommending anything custom UX builder checks whether an out of the box constellation component or UX booster already meets the need. When a custom component is appropriate, it presents a short set of concrete application grounded recommendations, ok? Now, the developer can choose a recommendation that may.

53 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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Which they need or describe a completely different requirement, so the recommendations are a helpful starting point rather than a constraint. Now after the developer chooses a direction, UX builder works in an existing DXCB project or creates one at a location selected by the developer. It generates the component using established constellation patterns, then creates a theme accurate design preview in the browser and then the developer reviews and approves the look and.

54 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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Feel before the production build. After the build, UX builder asked separately for approval to publish, publishes only after that approval, and provides guidance on where and how to configure the component in the application. It also includes a targeted debugging guidance if the team needs to troubleshoot what was published.

55 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Gotcha. So, we, I just had question actually just came up in the chat, but we already offer public skills that help developers build custom UX UX components. So with the introduction of this plugin, what, what is it adding to that? What it sounds like there's already a few things it's doing for you right away, right?

56 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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Okay, think of the public skills as a recipe, ok? They provide the knowledge, trusted guidance patterns, examples, and reference material that help a developer understand how to build a custom UX component. But with the recipe, the developer still has to gather the ingredients.

57 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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And do the work themselves. They need to configure the connection, understand their application models set up DXCB, choose the right component type, right, and test the code. Troubleshoot issues and publish it. That requires a learning curve and can take considerable time. But with UX builder plugin, it's more like a meal kit, ok? It brings the knowledge, workflow templates, live application context and implementation steps together for one outcome. It discovers the app, checks for.

58 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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Usable constellation capabilities 1st recommends the right component, generates it, provides a team accurate preview and guides the build and published process. It also includes debugging assistance if a component does not behave as expected. It helps the developer investigate likely issues such as data bindings, field, name spaces.

59 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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Browser console errors CSP settings, et cetera, then guides the next correction. The developer still makes the key choices and approvals, but the plugin removes much of the setup troubleshooting and delivery effort.

60 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Cool, so I'm a launchpad developer. How do I install, how do I start using the UX builder plugin, and where do I get it from? And what harnesses do we support? I see open code in the demo, but where do I get it and what can I use it with?

61 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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So UX builder is publicly available in the Pega Launchpad agent skills repository, in the same place where we have the agent skills available. So developers install the plugin directly that contains plugin.jason using their MCP capable chat assistance agent plugin mechanism. In VS code, e.g., the plugin route can be enabled through the chat.plugin location setting.

62 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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Other supported assistants use their native plugin or a skill setup. Once it is installed, developers do not need to memorize a special command or even name the skill. Okay, they can open the chat assistant and ask naturally, build a custom, like build a custom UX component for my launchpad app. That's it. They can also ask to create a custom field widget or layout template. The assistant matches that request to UX builder, establishes the required OAuth MCP connection and guides the developer from their own. It's basically a natural English language that you need to interact with the agent. That's it.

63 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Cool. So I think there's a lot of interest in this. I think one thing we could do as I'm going through the Q and A in a little bit, maybe in the chat, Tima, if you could post the the GitHub repo, which includes the public agent skills, but also this plugin, people can go take a look and, and start installing and and trying it out, that'd be awesome.

64 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Yep, definitely. Okay, cool. Alright, thank you Pratima, I really appreciate it. I've actually got to use this a few days ago when it was coming together and this thing's awesome, really makes it easy when you have a scenario where you want to build a custom component. And it also guides you. It may say, hey, look, constellation, we already have this out of the box thing. Try this, which saves you time as well. So yeah, it's a really smart plugin, appreciate all the hard work on this. Thank you, Pratim.

65 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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Thank you. Thank you, Tim.

66 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Cool. All right, so we are down to the Q and A here. Let's see what we've got going on here. I think some of the questions that we've gotten I hopefully we answered for you. We're gonna post the GitHub repo for that custom plugin. My question we did get was if the AI assistant and maybe for Rafaella if an AI assistant, can be used with other languages. Do you want to cover that one?

67 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Yes of course you can use any language you speak and assistant will follow you and follow the conversation with you to get your application built.

68 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Cool. Alright, let's see here. What else? Do what so do I need to know all about how apps are being built? I actually I think we answered that one, so we'll put that aside. So what makes AI system different from like a generic AI tool?

69 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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Your application, builds the context as you work and helps you move your application towards production readiness, not just generates content. That's like the main difference here.

70 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Okay, let's see here. Alright, this one would be Fortima. So how does the UX builder plugin know which component type is appropriate for a given requirement or use case?

71 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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So, so basically, like I said, it, it establishes an MCP connection with the application. So the UX component builder, the plugin, have all the skills needed to understand what an appropriate.

72 "Pratima Edarapalli" (1026608640)
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Component type fits that particular application. It it reads through all the case types, data types fields, it has knowledge on the complete application and that's how it decides. It is, it is killed with all these details.

73 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Okay, cool. Thank you. I think I have one more question here so far, Rafael, so does the AI system make changes automatically?

74 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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No, assistant follows a human in the loop approach as we've seen in the demo. It proposes changes, explains them, and asks for approval before making updates.

75 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Cool. Yeah, I I saw also that there's a plan and build mode so you can really start with the plan mode and and understand what it's putting together and tweak it and then go and have it do the build while you're, you know, confirming what needs to be done. So, yeah, that looks, that looks good really robust kind of setup there. Alright, I think.

76 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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The oh and so one more question for you, what kind of documentation do we have with AI assistant? Does it sort of talk about its limitations or or things like that? Yes, it does. We do.

77 "Rafal Jablonowski" (4037129472)
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As the documentation as a system documented on the documentation. We also have a document what it can support and we continuously improve it with your input so that more and more of the business use cases that you are going to build are supported. I'll share the links or we can share the links afterwards to the documentation and what AS system can do. Cool.

78 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Alright, let me see here. Alright, I think that's all the questions I have right now. Alright, so I think we can move on to the next steps here. Cool. All right. So, if there were other questions, you can also reach out to us.

79 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Through launchpad.io, just send a message, we can talk about any other questions offline. Our next launchpad live community call is 5 November at 09:00 A.M. eastern. So please go on launchpad.io registered for that.

80 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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You can also see other events that are coming up as well for launchpad. So if you go to launchpad.io resources, you can see the the upcoming events. And I think we have a list of events coming up in the next few weeks as well. Yeah, so we have.

81 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Several events in Boston happening right now, so you can see those here. We have one coming up Monday 28 September, another on 1 October. And of course we will also be at AWS reinvent this year out in Las Vegas. More details to come, keep an eye on our events page for registration.

82 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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Sign UPS, links to attend these events. We'd love to see you out there folks that are in the Boston area and though also those are going to AWS reinvent. Love to sit down and talk more about Launchpad with you all. So thank you so much. Appreciate everyone's time today. Couple really cool new features and ways to build your app here. I hope you guys get a chance to try it right now.

83 "Tim Miranda" (4120272384)
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After this call and thanks so much. Appreciate you attending.