SMRTR AIMay 27, 2026Dev.to

What Building My Own AI Bot Taught Me About Generative AI

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Building an AI bot trained on 50,000 personal bookmarks revealed a key truth: generative AI is sophisticated retrieval, not reasoning. The bot's quality came entirely from curated input data, not the model itself — proving that AI doesn't improve bad data, it just makes it sound more convincing.

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