Why Building AI Chat Apps Is Still Hard in 2026
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Why Building AI Chat Apps Is Still Hard in 2026 A few months ago I tried building what sounded like a simple feature. “Let users place orders through chat.” Nothing fancy. Just a conversational interface that could talk to a backend and perform actions. In my head, it felt like something that could take a weekend. In reality, it quickly turned into a pile of moving parts. LLM APIs. Prompt tuning. Conversation state. API integrations. Safety checks so the AI doesn’t hallucinate things like a 100% discount.