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Build One AI Service Before You Design Your Learning Roadmap
Community description: The most useful AI learning roadmap for a Python developer rarely appears before the work starts. It...
Dev.to | Sep 14, 2026 | Alex Agafonov
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Keep the project small enough to finish A document assistant for one bounded knowledge base is a good first project. You need to call a model, prepare data, build retrieval, define an output format, add checks, and handle access. Retrieval returns a neighboring document, and the model writes a coherent answer based on the wrong source. Filtering the completed answer is too late. Access checks belong before retrieval or inside document selection.
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