🔥Let’s Do DevOps: Building a Slack Bot with AI Capabilities — From Scratch! Part 1🔥

aka, “can an AI do my work for me please?”

This blog series focuses on presenting complex DevOps projects as simple and approachable via plain language and lots of pictures. You can do it!

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This article is part of a series of articles, because 1 article would be absolutely massive with all parts.

• Part 1 (this article): Covers how to build a slack bot in websocket mode
• Part 2 (link coming when published): How to deploy an Azure AI resource, publish a model to it, and connect your slack bot with Azure AI locally using python3 with websocket mode
• Part 3 (link coming when published): How to convert your local script to an event-driven serverless, cloud-based app

Hey all!

I have been chatting with AIs daily — GitHub Copilot is fantastic for writing code, and ChatGPT is great for initial ideas (and therapy?!) and writing things from templates, like a lot of my “there is a new post” on LinkedIn. Sure, they hallucinate sometimes, but most of the information I get from them are fantastic.

However, at work, we are banned from using general purpose AIs. We’re in the healthcare space, so uploading any data to ChatGPT is not only out of compliance, it could be…