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Lessons from building a small-scale AI application

by rdli on 1/23/25, 12:52 PM with 6 comments

  • by datadrivenangel on 1/23/25, 3:35 PM

    "There’s a plethora of developer libraries that claim to make AI development faster and easier. These libraries introduce new abstractions designed to improve your productivity. I tried many of them, and I found that the abstractions work well only if I stayed on a narrow path (the quick starts generally worked great!)."

    This tracks my experience with developer libraries. Most of them are very brittle abstractions.

  • by efriis on 1/23/25, 7:55 PM

    Really like your writeup! I work on LangChain and would love to set up some time to chat if you're game. My email is in my profile