I could have given up... It was my choice. But it's the hard path, not ready made code copied and pasted from Claude, for example, that made me a finisher.
I revere each environment. Dev environment to me is now as important as testing and staging environments.
Shipped a RAG pipeline 2 days ago. Better embeddings, better retrieval, better results...
P.S. Server side validation only. Built with OWASP security principles in mind to help protect against common attacks like XSS and SQL injection. API keys are safeguarded. Open source.