{"id":5048,"date":"2025-01-24T13:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=5048"},"modified":"2025-01-24T13:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:06:32","slug":"what-ive-learned-about-writing-ai-apps-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/what-ive-learned-about-writing-ai-apps-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;ve learned about writing AI apps so far"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some plain-language baby-bear porridge <a href=\"https:\/\/seldo.com\/posts\/what-ive-learned-about-writing-ai-apps-so-far\">writing from Laurie Voss:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Is what you&#8217;re doing taking a large amount of text and asking the LLM to convert it into a smaller amount of text? Then it&#8217;s probably going to be great at it. If you&#8217;re asking it to convert into a roughly equal amount of text it will be so-so. If you&#8217;re asking it to create more text than you gave it, forget about it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>My own thought: when people say there are writing an AI app, we&#8217;re still in a stage where that feels exotic and magical and at the cutting edge of technology. And in a way, it is. But very few people are actually <em>creating<\/em> AI, most of us are <em>using<\/em> AI. So writing an AI app is more like&#8230; writing an API app. You&#8217;re figuring out the best APIs to use, what\/when to send them that yields the best results, and how to show those results to the user. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some plain-language baby-bear porridge writing from Laurie Voss: Is what you&#8217;re doing taking a large amount of text and asking the LLM to convert it into a smaller amount of text? Then it&#8217;s probably going to be great at it. If you&#8217;re asking it to convert into a roughly equal amount of text it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[104,290],"class_list":["post-5048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-ai","tag-api"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/seldo.png?fit=1502%2C892&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5050,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions\/5050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}