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Liu: Companies abandon LLM frameworks to regain control over prompts
“So much of it is changing that if you give control of these systems away too early, you end up ultimately wanting them back. Like many companies I know that I reach out or ones were like, oh, we're going off of the frameworks because now that we know what the …”
Liu: Structured LLM outputs unlock traditional computer science reasoning algorithms
“Embeddings really is kind of like the lowest hanging fruit, and using something like Instructor can really help produce a data structure, and then you can just use your computer science to reason about this data structure.”
Liu: Instructor is not a billion-dollar startup opportunity
“But to back to the instructor thing, I just don't think it's a billion dollar company.”
Swix: OpenAI Structured Outputs cut API costs by 55% vs Instructor
“We use structured outputs for AI news. I use Instructor and I ripped it out and I think it, I saved 20 lines of code, but more importantly, it was like, we cut it by 55% of API costs based on what I measured because of all we saved on the retries.”
Liu: Instructor was designed as a minimal wrapper akin to Requests
“And so I just said, let me write, like, the most simple SDK around the OpenAI SDK, sorry, simple wrapper on the SDK, just handle the response model a bit, and kind of think of myself more like requests than an actual framework that people can use.”