End of an Agony. Real production service that uses LLM to earn money my team had made and now we are so happy that it will die. Here are some of my final "experiences".

Explain Like I'm Normal

A developer shared a brutal post-mortem after spending eight months trying to build a production-grade AI medical appointment assistant using LLMs. The project ended in a shutdown due to the massive gap between 'demo magic' and the reliability required for real-world client services. Despite improvements in open-source models, the team cited pure exhaustion and technical debt as the reasons for their relief in quitting.