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Developer abandons LLM appointment service citing model unreliability

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A developer shared their experience building a production service using open-source LLMs for appointment scheduling, ultimately deciding to shut down the project due to significant challenges. While open-source models have improved and are suitable for individual use, integrating them into a multi-party service proved problematic. Issues included unreliable API uptime from providers, difficulties with PydanticAI's asynchronous design in a synchronous environment, and models frequently returning broken structured data that validation could not fix, leading to a frustrating user experience. AI

IMPACT Highlights the difficulties of deploying LLMs in multi-party production environments due to reliability and data integrity issues.

RANK_REASON Developer's personal account of challenges using LLMs in a production service.

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Developer abandons LLM appointment service citing model unreliability

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/DaniyarQQQ ·

    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".

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hello everyone.</p> <p>I had posted in this sub about making a production service about 8 months ago. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1orw0fz/ive_been_trying_to_make_a_real_production_service/">Here the link of my previous p…

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