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 — written for people who know C# but have never built an AI feature.
This is not a best-practices sermon. It’s more like: here’s the problem, here’s what we nearly built, here’s what annoyed me, and here’s what we landed on.
The feature
I work on an app that helps kids learn through interactive 3D models — a heart, a cell, a volcano — in the browser, AR, and VR. We’re adding Cori, an assistant you can talk to about whatever model is currently on screen.
