Week 1 - Project Review
WhatsApp AI Chatbot: What I Learned Building a RAG Assistant for Real Users
A practical review of the WhatsApp chatbot project through the lens of AI engineering: retrieval, latency, prompt control, failure modes, and user expectations.
Abstract: The chatbot is framed less as an AI demo and more as a production interface where every answer has cost, risk, and context. The 90s adventure-game metaphor helps: classic dialogue trees gave authors control, while RAG turns the tree into a probabilistic conversation over documents. The article stays humble and concrete: what worked, what had to be constrained, and why real users care more about useful answers than model mystique.
LinkedIn angle
Use this as a field note for people searching for practical AI engineering, RAG implementation, and production chatbot lessons.