--- title: Worth Reading: Building Stuff with Large Language Models... description: Building production-grade applications with large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT is far harder than demos suggest. While LLMs appear simple and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/worth-reading-building-stuff-with-large-language-models-is-hard-ipspace-net-blog-uugue0iln twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Worth Reading: Building Stuff with Large Language Models Is Hard « ipSpace.net blog | daily.dev og:description: Building production-grade applications with large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT is far harder than demos suggest. While LLMs appear simple and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/worth-reading-building-stuff-with-large-language-models-is-hard-ipspace-net-blog-uugue0iln og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UuguE0IlN.png og:image:alt: Worth Reading: Building Stuff with Large Language Models Is Hard « ipSpace.net blog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Worth Reading: Building Stuff with Large Language Models Is Hard « ipSpace.net blog **[ipSpace.net Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ipspace)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Building production-grade applications with large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT is far harder than demos suggest. While LLMs appear simple and approachable, extracting consistent value from them in real products is devilishly difficult. This post points to a Honeycomb engineering blog post that candidly covers the gotchas and hard lessons their team encountered when building an LLM-based user interface — the kind of practical challenges rarely discussed publicly. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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