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Generative AI Development Is 20% Prompting and 80% Everything Else

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Last spring I built a working generative AI feature in a weekend: a support assistant that read a customer's question, pulled context from our help docs, and wrote a friendly, accurate answer. The demo went great. Everyone nodded. Shipping it took three more months. Not because the prompt was wrong…

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  1. 2026-10-28 09:24 · DEV Community — AI
    Generative AI Development Is 20% Prompting and 80% Everything Else

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