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I built an Alexa skill at work. It's mostly a ton of edge cases and prompt variations you have to handle. Alexa also has a very short time out, something like 8 seconds, so your skill will time out very easily. Handling state is a whole other fiasco.

Some things are out my control, like if Alexa picks up the skill invocation phrase or parses the response correctly.

I suspect LLMs will help with this. Alexa is already integrating LLMs with their newer skill kits.