Did you just get the task to “make an AI assistant” — and you mainly do .NET? Same. I’m also one of those people who rolls their eyes at a lot of the AI hype, and the internet is full of articles where every confident tutorial contradicts the previous one. So instead of publishing one more “definitive guide” that will age badly in two weeks, here’s the version I wish I’d found: what my team actually decided to build, the wrong turns we took on the way, and the code that finally made it click ...