Chapter 6 of 23 · Level 2 · Communicating with Models

Structured Outputs & Function Calling

Forcing machine-readable output, JSON Schema validation, and the function-calling seed every agent grows from.

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Prompt Engineering Is Software Engineering

Prompt engineering looks like writing to a chatbot. The moment your code has to parse the reply, it becomes software engineering: system prompts, JSON Schema, function calling, and retry loops.

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