10 Hard-Earned Lessons from a Year of Bu ...

10 Hard-Earned Lessons from a Year of Building with LLMs in Production

Aug 13, 2026

Spent the last year building LLM features in production. Most "the AI is wrong" bugs turned out not to be model problems at all. Wrote up 10 lessons - prompt engineering, evaluation, RAG, agentic workflows, and where MCP fits in.

Full article here: https://dev.to/sureshbabunarayanan/10-hard-earned-lessons-from-a-year-of-building-with-llms-in-production-akc

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