DON’T BUILD AI PRODUCTS THE WAY EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING IT

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This blog discusses ways you can build differentiated AI apps that deal with the problematic sides of LLM such as its cost, slowness, and lack of customization. The solution is to build your own toolchain of models connected by normal code. The trick is, as strange as it sounds, to avoid using AI for as long as possible in your project. Then, when you start finding particular problems that standard coding doesn't solve well — but well-established AI models can — start generating your own data and training your own models with a wide variety of tools you can find off-the-shelf.