Build AI apps is still hard. Are there boilerplates for AI apps already?

Dec '24 • Full Stack Development with AI

I've been using AI coding assistants for the last year, while they have increased my productivity, I still find it really hard to build apps fast.

Recently, I tried to build an AI chatbot that can auto reply to sales inquiries for a small business I run.

There are so many parts that need to work together: backend, database, frontend, authentication, using 3rd party frameworks like LangChain, also need to add some RAG ability to reference past emails. I want to add agents later, but it will probably be even harder.

It takes so long to just get the "boilerplate" stuff to work together. I chose to use python as backend, and React as front end, tailwind css. Needed to integrate with LangChain.

Is it just me, or anyone also struggles with going 0 to 1 to build an actual app that's not just a simple one page prototype?

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