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What I've learned about writing AI apps so far

I started writing a post called "how to write AI apps" but it was over-reach so I scaled it back to this. Who am I to tell you how to write anything? But here's what I'll be applying to my own writing of AI-powered apps, specifically LLM applications. A battle I've already lost is that we shouldn't call LLMs "AI" at all; they are machine learning and not the general intelligence that is implied to the layman by the name. It is an even less helpful name than "serverless", my previous can

A battle I've already lost is that we shouldn't call LLMs "AI" at all; they are machine learning and not the general intelligence that is implied to the layman by the name. RAG is basically the practice of telling the LLM what it needs to know and then immediately asking it for that information back in condensed form. I don't think you can reliably get an LLM to replace any human but especially not a doctor, do not trust your health to autocomplete that is just trying to be helpful.

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