Building an AI Chatbot: A Real-World Challenge

Currently working on a chatbot project that's teaching me a lot about the nuts and bolts of AI and software development.

I've experimented with multiple generative AI tools during this process ... each with its own strengths and limitations. More on those insights to come later.

It's not as glamorous as it sounds; lots of debugging, reworking vector search, and making sure different system components actually talk to each other. But there's something satisfying about slowly piecing together a complex system.

Right now, I'm focused on:
-- Getting semantic search to work reliably
-- Building a robust monitoring system
-- Handling edge cases in natural language processing

It's a reminder that building tech is mostly about persistence and problem-solving, not magic.