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# 5 Lessons From LinkedIn’s First Foray Into GenAI Development

**[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Lessons learned from LinkedIn's experience with GenAI development include not charting future progress on early momentum, using RAG to make LLMs work, describing APIs for LLMs, avoiding excessive fragmentation, and addressing the challenge of evaluating GenAI programs.

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