diff --git a/shiny/_main_create.py b/shiny/_main_create.py
index 84c66c5ee..e00d59c12 100644
--- a/shiny/_main_create.py
+++ b/shiny/_main_create.py
@@ -231,10 +231,6 @@ def chat_hello_providers(self) -> list[ShinyTemplate]:
     def chat_enterprise(self) -> list[ShinyTemplate]:
         return self._templates("templates/chat/enterprise")
 
-    @property
-    def chat_production(self) -> list[ShinyTemplate]:
-        return self._templates("templates/chat/production")
-
 
 shiny_internal_templates = ShinyInternalTemplates()
 
@@ -264,7 +260,6 @@ def use_internal_template(
     chat_templates = [
         *shiny_internal_templates.chat_hello_providers,
         *shiny_internal_templates.chat_enterprise,
-        *shiny_internal_templates.chat_production,
     ]
 
     menu_choices = [
@@ -356,7 +351,6 @@ def use_internal_chat_ai_template(
             choices=[
                 Choice(title="By provider...", value="_chat-ai_hello-providers"),
                 Choice(title="Enterprise providers...", value="_chat-ai_enterprise"),
-                Choice(title="Production-ready chat AI", value="_chat-ai_production"),
                 back_choice,
                 cancel_choice,
             ],
@@ -375,9 +369,7 @@ def use_internal_chat_ai_template(
         )
         return
 
-    if input == "_chat-ai_production":
-        template_choices = shiny_internal_templates.chat_production
-    elif input == "_chat-ai_enterprise":
+    if input == "_chat-ai_enterprise":
         template_choices = shiny_internal_templates.chat_enterprise
     else:
         template_choices = shiny_internal_templates.chat_hello_providers
@@ -392,7 +384,6 @@ def use_internal_chat_ai_template(
         [
             *shiny_internal_templates.chat_hello_providers,
             *shiny_internal_templates.chat_enterprise,
-            *shiny_internal_templates.chat_production,
         ],
         choice,
     )
diff --git a/shiny/templates/chat/hello-providers/gemini/_template.json b/shiny/templates/chat/hello-providers/gemini/_template.json
deleted file mode 100644
index baf30e7cd..000000000
--- a/shiny/templates/chat/hello-providers/gemini/_template.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "type": "app",
-  "id": "chat-ai-gemini",
-  "title": "Chat AI using Google Gemini"
-}
diff --git a/shiny/templates/chat/hello-providers/gemini/app.py b/shiny/templates/chat/hello-providers/gemini/app.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 2240c8f52..000000000
--- a/shiny/templates/chat/hello-providers/gemini/app.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# A basic Shiny Chat example powered by Google's Gemini model.
-# To run it, you'll need a Google API key.
-# To get one, follow the instructions at https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/get-started/tutorial?lang=python
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-from app_utils import load_dotenv
-from google.generativeai import GenerativeModel
-
-from shiny.express import ui
-
-# Either explicitly set the GOOGLE_API_KEY environment variable before launching the
-# app, or set them in a file named `.env`. The `python-dotenv` package will load `.env`
-# as environment variables which can later be read by `os.getenv()`.
-load_dotenv()
-llm = GenerativeModel()
-
-# Set some Shiny page options
-ui.page_opts(
-    title="Hello Google Gemini Chat",
-    fillable=True,
-    fillable_mobile=True,
-)
-
-# Create and display empty chat
-chat = ui.Chat(id="chat")
-chat.ui()
-
-
-# Define a callback to run when the user submits a message
-@chat.on_user_submit
-async def _():
-    # Get messages currently in the chat
-    contents = chat.messages(format="google")
-
-    # Generate a response message stream
-    response = llm.generate_content(
-        contents=contents,
-        stream=True,
-    )
-
-    # Append the response stream into the chat
-    await chat.append_message_stream(response)
diff --git a/shiny/templates/chat/hello-providers/gemini/app_utils.py b/shiny/templates/chat/hello-providers/gemini/app_utils.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 404a13730..000000000
--- a/shiny/templates/chat/hello-providers/gemini/app_utils.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-import os
-from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any
-
-app_dir = Path(__file__).parent
-env_file = app_dir / ".env"
-
-
-def load_dotenv(dotenv_path: os.PathLike[str] = env_file, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
-    """
-    A convenience wrapper around `dotenv.load_dotenv` that warns if `dotenv` is not installed.
-    It also returns `None` to make it easier to ignore the return value.
-    """
-    try:
-        import dotenv
-
-        dotenv.load_dotenv(dotenv_path=dotenv_path, **kwargs)
-    except ImportError:
-        import warnings
-
-        warnings.warn(
-            "Could not import `dotenv`. If you want to use `.env` files to "
-            "load environment variables, please install it using "
-            "`pip install python-dotenv`.",
-            stacklevel=2,
-        )
diff --git a/shiny/templates/chat/hello-providers/gemini/requirements.txt b/shiny/templates/chat/hello-providers/gemini/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index f3e733a88..000000000
--- a/shiny/templates/chat/hello-providers/gemini/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-shiny
-python-dotenv
-tokenizers
-google-generativeai
diff --git a/shiny/templates/chat/production/anthropic/_template.json b/shiny/templates/chat/production/anthropic/_template.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 271e2c040..000000000
--- a/shiny/templates/chat/production/anthropic/_template.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "type": "app",
-  "id": "chat-ai-anthropic-prod",
-  "title": "Chat in production with Anthropic"
-}
diff --git a/shiny/templates/chat/production/anthropic/app.py b/shiny/templates/chat/production/anthropic/app.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 60cfbd6dc..000000000
--- a/shiny/templates/chat/production/anthropic/app.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# When putting a Chat into production, there are at least a couple additional
-# considerations to keep in mind:
-#  - Token Limits: LLMs have (varying) limits on how many tokens can be included in
-#    a single request and response. To accurately respect these limits, you'll want
-#    to find the revelant limits and tokenizer for the model you're using, and inform
-#    Chat about them.
-#  - Reproducibility: Consider pinning a snapshot of the LLM model to ensure that the
-#    same model is used each time the app is run.
-#
-# See the MODEL_CONFIG dictionary below for an example of how to set these values for
-# Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model.
-# https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models#model-comparison-table
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-import os
-
-from app_utils import load_dotenv
-from chatlas import Chat, ChatAnthropic
-
-from shiny.express import ui
-
-MODEL_CONFIG = {
-    "name": "claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620",
-    "context_window": 200000,
-    "max_tokens": 8192,
-}
-
-load_dotenv()
-chat_model = ChatAnthropic(
-    api_key=os.environ.get("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"),
-    model=MODEL_CONFIG["name"],
-    max_tokens=MODEL_CONFIG["max_tokens"],
-    system_prompt="You are a helpful assistant.",
-)
-
-
-ui.page_opts(
-    title="Hello OpenAI Chat",
-    fillable=True,
-    fillable_mobile=True,
-)
-
-chat = ui.Chat(
-    id="chat",
-    messages=["Hello! How can I help you today?"],
-)
-
-chat.ui()
-
-
-@chat.on_user_submit
-async def handle_user_input(user_input):
-    response = await chat_model.stream_async(user_input)
-    await chat.append_message_stream(response)
-
-
-def trim_chat_turns(turns, max_turns=5):
-    return turns[-max_turns:]
diff --git a/shiny/templates/chat/production/anthropic/app_utils.py b/shiny/templates/chat/production/anthropic/app_utils.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 404a13730..000000000
--- a/shiny/templates/chat/production/anthropic/app_utils.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-import os
-from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any
-
-app_dir = Path(__file__).parent
-env_file = app_dir / ".env"
-
-
-def load_dotenv(dotenv_path: os.PathLike[str] = env_file, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
-    """
-    A convenience wrapper around `dotenv.load_dotenv` that warns if `dotenv` is not installed.
-    It also returns `None` to make it easier to ignore the return value.
-    """
-    try:
-        import dotenv
-
-        dotenv.load_dotenv(dotenv_path=dotenv_path, **kwargs)
-    except ImportError:
-        import warnings
-
-        warnings.warn(
-            "Could not import `dotenv`. If you want to use `.env` files to "
-            "load environment variables, please install it using "
-            "`pip install python-dotenv`.",
-            stacklevel=2,
-        )
diff --git a/shiny/templates/chat/production/anthropic/requirements.txt b/shiny/templates/chat/production/anthropic/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index fb3b67026..000000000
--- a/shiny/templates/chat/production/anthropic/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-shiny
-python-dotenv
-tokenizers
-anthropic
diff --git a/shiny/templates/chat/production/openai/_template.json b/shiny/templates/chat/production/openai/_template.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a64e5211..000000000
--- a/shiny/templates/chat/production/openai/_template.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "type": "app",
-  "id": "chat-ai-openai-prod",
-  "title": "Chat in production with OpenAI"
-}
diff --git a/shiny/templates/chat/production/openai/app.py b/shiny/templates/chat/production/openai/app.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 69e4e00d1..000000000
--- a/shiny/templates/chat/production/openai/app.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# When putting a Chat into production, there are at least a couple additional
-# considerations to keep in mind:
-#  - Token Limits: LLMs have (varying) limits on how many tokens can be included in
-#    a single request and response. To accurately respect these limits, you'll want
-#    to find the revelant limits and tokenizer for the model you're using, and inform
-#    Chat about them.
-#  - Reproducibility: Consider pinning a snapshot of the LLM model to ensure that the
-#    same model is used each time the app is run.
-#
-# See the MODEL_CONFIG dictionary below for an example of how to set these values for
-# OpenAI's GPT-4o model.
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-import os
-
-import tiktoken
-from app_utils import load_dotenv
-from chatlas import Chat, ChatOpenAI
-
-from shiny.express import ui
-
-MODEL_CONFIG = {
-    "name": "gpt-4o-2024-08-06",
-    "context_window": 128000,
-    "max_tokens": 16000,
-}
-
-load_dotenv()
-chat_model = ChatOpenAI(
-    api_key=os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY"),
-    model=MODEL_CONFIG["name"],
-)
-
-
-ui.page_opts(
-    title="Hello OpenAI Chat",
-    fillable=True,
-    fillable_mobile=True,
-)
-
-chat = ui.Chat(
-    id="chat",
-    messages=["Hello! How can I help you today?"],
-)
-
-chat.ui()
-
-
-@chat.on_user_submit
-async def handle_user_input(user_input):
-    response = await chat_model.stream_async(user_input)
-    await chat.append_message_stream(response)
-
-
-tokenizer = tiktoken.encoding_for_model(MODEL_CONFIG["name"])
diff --git a/shiny/templates/chat/production/openai/app_utils.py b/shiny/templates/chat/production/openai/app_utils.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 404a13730..000000000
--- a/shiny/templates/chat/production/openai/app_utils.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-import os
-from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any
-
-app_dir = Path(__file__).parent
-env_file = app_dir / ".env"
-
-
-def load_dotenv(dotenv_path: os.PathLike[str] = env_file, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
-    """
-    A convenience wrapper around `dotenv.load_dotenv` that warns if `dotenv` is not installed.
-    It also returns `None` to make it easier to ignore the return value.
-    """
-    try:
-        import dotenv
-
-        dotenv.load_dotenv(dotenv_path=dotenv_path, **kwargs)
-    except ImportError:
-        import warnings
-
-        warnings.warn(
-            "Could not import `dotenv`. If you want to use `.env` files to "
-            "load environment variables, please install it using "
-            "`pip install python-dotenv`.",
-            stacklevel=2,
-        )
diff --git a/shiny/templates/chat/production/openai/requirements.txt b/shiny/templates/chat/production/openai/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e5ab6b2a..000000000
--- a/shiny/templates/chat/production/openai/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-shiny
-python-dotenv
-tiktoken
-openai