Cracking Open the OpenAI (Python) API

A complete beginner-friendly introduction with example code

This is the 2nd article in a series on using Large Language Models (LLMs) in practice. Here I present a beginner-friendly introduction to the OpenAI API. This allows you to go beyond restrictive chat interfaces like ChatGPT and to get more out of LLMs for your unique use cases. Python example code is provided below and at the GitHub repository.

Table of Contents:

1. What’s an API? …

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