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Minimal Chat Program with a Circular Context

In the previous chapter, I have shown how to exchange data with an LLM API. I used CURL as the HTTP client. In this chapter, I replace CURL with a Python program. That does not mean that everything is automated. No, I still manually manage the messages, but I introduce a data structure that contains […]
The Bare Minimum to Chat with Function Calls

This is a tutorial on using the OpenAI LLM API, focusing on: messages and function calls. But, without Python, TypeScript, or some other programming language. The only requirements are CURL (an HTTP client) and an OpenAI API key. Why Bother? “Why waste my time, when I can just import an API package?” Sure, that works, […]