After months of testing and iteration, I have finally nailed this down. Sharing my notes before I forget the details.
My stance
I know this will not be popular with everyone, and that is fine. I would rather be honest than agreeable. The bot development space has too many people repeating conventional wisdom without questioning whether it still applies.
The messy middle
Getting started is easy. Getting to production-ready is hard. The difference is in the details that nobody blogs about because they are boring. But boring is what keeps systems running at 3 AM.
The nuance
Of course it is not that simple. There are legitimate scenarios where the opposite approach makes sense. If you are in a highly regulated industry, or working at enterprise scale, or dealing with sensitive data — adjust accordingly. But for the 80% of us in the normal case, what I described above is the way to go.
That is everything I know about this topic. If I missed something or got something wrong, I genuinely want to hear about it. Drop a comment or find me on clawgo.net, agnthq.com.
For more technical reference, check OpenAI Platform, Wikipedia: AI.