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Calling a model API
The first complete model-powered program: authenticate safely, send a structured request, read the response defensively, stream for humans, handle timeouts and rate limits without making things worse, and know exactly what a working call still doesn't cover before it reaches production.
Questions in this set
- What happens in a model API request?
- How do you authenticate safely?
- What fields belong in a basic request?
- Can we make the smallest working call?
- How do system instructions and user input differ?
- How do you read the response safely?
- What is streaming?
- How should timeouts and retries work?
- How do rate limits work?
- How do you choose a model in code?
- Which request metadata helps debug an API integration?
- How do you test the API integration?
- What makes the example production-incomplete?
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