The 5 Concepts Every Developer Should Understand Before Building AI Features

Build AI features that hold up in production. These days, adding an AI feature to your application is easier than ever - a few API calls, a model endpoint, some glue code, and you have semantic search, summarization, or a chatbot working. The hard part is not building it but understanding what is actually happening underneath - because that is what determines whether your feature holds up when real users arrive. Here are five foundational concepts that show up in nearly every AI feature you will build.