Dev Tools · 1h ago
Key Lessons for Building Production-Grade LLM Apps
LLMs are stateless and require manual memory management by resending conversation history. RAG is an external architecture, not a built-in feature, involving document retrieval and embedding. LLMs should not handle calculations; use function calling for deterministic, auditable computation.
Meridian48 take
Solid practical advice for developers, but the statelessness and RAG limitations are well-known; the real challenge is evaluation and cost optimization.
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