How should I design the UX for an AI feature?
AI calls are slow, so show a clear loading state, debounce input so you do not call on every keystroke, and handle errors gracefully with a retry option. Users need to know something is happening and can recover from failures.
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Start with a search feature: collect input on the frontend, call your backend to keep the API key safe, the backend calls the AI, parses the response, possibly calls other APIs, and returns structured data the frontend renders.
A search that takes natural language and returns results. A GPT-powered movie search is a great first AI feature: send the query, get movie names, look them up on a movie API, and display the results.
To keep the API key safe. Putting the key in client-side React code exposes it to anyone. Call a backend or serverless function that holds the key and calls the AI, so the key never reaches the browser.
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