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Learn how to build a useful AI chatbot by applying lessons from a real project, including debugging and optimizing Lambda functions on Vercel.

intermediate Published 7 May 2026
Action Steps
  1. Build an AI chatbot using Lambda functions and Vercel
  2. Debug timeout errors in Vercel logs
  3. Update Lambda functions to use streams instead of response.json()
  4. Test and optimize the chatbot for better performance
  5. Apply lessons from the project to future AI chatbot development
Who Needs to Know This

Developers and product managers can benefit from this article by learning how to overcome common challenges in building AI chatbots and creating more useful and efficient conversational interfaces.

Key Insight

💡 Using streams instead of response.json() can resolve timeout errors in Vercel logs and improve chatbot performance

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Learn how to build a useful AI chatbot by applying lessons from a real project, including debugging and optimizing Lambda functions on Vercel.

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## [](https://dev.to/johnsamuel/ai-for-good-1jpp#building-an-ai-chatbot-isnt-hard%E2%80%8A%E2%80%8Amaking-it-useful-is-lessons-from-a-real-project) Building an AI Chatbot Isn’t Hard — Making It Useful Is (Lessons from a Real Project)

A month ago, while building a resume coach AI chatbot using Lambda functions and deploying them on Vercel(a leading cloud platform for frontend developers), I repeatedly encountered timeout errors in the Vercel logs during testing. As I debugged the issue for sometime, I discovered that I was using response.json() instead of streaming the response, which was causing the timeout ⌛️errors on Vercel. Once I updated the Lambda functions to use streams, it started to work
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