Tue Sep 23 2025

John Berryman has seen what works — and what breaks — when building AI applications. In this episode, he shares the “seven deadly sins” of LLM development and the fixes that keep projects from falling apart. From context management to retrieval debugging, John explains the patterns he’s seen succeed, the mistakes to avoid, and why it helps to think of an LLM as an “AI intern” rather than an all-knowing oracle.