Published 2023-09-06

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This guide is for software developers that:

• Have little or casual knowledge of AI language models (i.e. just tinkered with ChatGPT).
• Want to understand the state of the field and the scope for applying these models for production.

There is a ton of AI information drifting on the internet, and most of it is noise and garbage. I strip all of the hype out, and just present you the most relevant, useful information from a developer’s point of view.

The big picture

No AI language model is truely production-grade as of September 2023. There are many factors contributing to this, here’s some of them:

• Unreliable capabilities
• Strict rate limits/ quotas
• High costs
• Latency