Building a classifier in 2023 meant hacking OpenAI's function calling API — how far we've come
_ScottCondron · x · 2026-09-16
A nostalgic look back: in 2023, building a text classifier meant using OpenAI's then-new function calling API to define possible outputs and repurposing the returned "input" argument as the classification. A stark reminder of how much AI development has changed in two years.
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