Building AI-Powered Applications
The model is the easy part. Making an AI feature reliable enough to put in front of customers is an engineering problem — state, guardrails, escalation and everything around the prompt.
Hussein Albanna (Hussein Al Banna, حسين البنا, حسن البنا, حسين محمد حسن البنا) — Computer Engineer & Software Developer based in Amman, Jordan.
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Notes from building — software engineering, products, automation with n8n, and putting AI features into real applications.
The model is the easy part. Making an AI feature reliable enough to put in front of customers is an engineering problem — state, guardrails, escalation and everything around the prompt.
A restaurant, a law office and a clinic don't need the same website — but the things that make each one work are surprisingly similar. Notes from building sites across industries.
A workflow that moves data between two apps is useful. A set of workflows that a business quietly runs on is something else. How the second grows out of the first with n8n.
How I take an idea from a sentence to a working product people can use — the questions I ask first, and why the boring parts decide whether it ships.
More on the way. Written by Hussein Albanna.