The importance of APIs

Leverage APIs for AI Services. Many AI functions, such as natural language processing or image recognition, are available through APIs. In reality this is just a long password that you need to put into your python code to access a service. For example, our WhatsApp misinformation bot talks to several APIs, including the one you get from Open AI when you have the paid account. Also, if you are going to be sharing your code (or even submitting it to ChatGPT) don’t hard code your API passwords into the code you are sharing because if anyone gets hold of that they can abuse your account. Rather keep them in a separate secure doc and point the code to access them.

Version Control Your Models and Data. When working on AI projects, it's not just the code that evolves over time, but also your models and even your data can change. Using a version control system like Git for your code can help you keep track of changes, collaborate with others and roll back to previous versions when needed.