Open-Source ML Framework: What Actually Broke in Production

I Built a Full App With the New Open-Source AI Framework Everyone’s Talking About — Here’s What Broke Hook I spent two weeks building a real production app with this newly open-sourced machine learning framework everyone’s hyping. You know the type—GitHub stars exploding, Twitter threads calling it revolutionary, Discord channels flooding with people saying they finally ditched their old setup. I wanted to see if the hype matched reality. Spoiler: it didn’t. Not because the framework is bad, but because I made the rookie mistake of assuming “open-source” and “production-ready” mean the same thing. They don’t. ...

March 14, 2026 · 20 min · Henry