OpenAI Assistants API: Building Stateful AI Agents with Code Interpreter and File Search

Introduction: OpenAI’s Assistants API, launched at DevDay 2023, represents a significant evolution in how developers build AI-powered applications. Unlike the stateless Chat Completions API, Assistants provides a managed, stateful runtime for building sophisticated AI agents with built-in tools like Code Interpreter and File Search. The API handles conversation threading, file management, and tool execution, allowing […]

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GPT-4 Turbo and the OpenAI Assistants API: Building Production Conversational AI Systems

Introduction: OpenAI’s DevDay 2023 marked a pivotal moment in AI development with the announcement of GPT-4 Turbo and the Assistants API. These releases fundamentally changed how developers build AI-powered applications, offering 128K context windows, native JSON mode, improved function calling, and persistent conversation threads. After integrating these capabilities into production systems, I’ve found that the […]

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Building Production AI Applications with .NET 8 and C# 12

When .NET 8 and C# 12 were released, I was skeptical. After 15 years building enterprise applications, I’d seen framework updates come and go. But this release changed everything for AI development. Let me show you how to build production AI applications with .NET 8 and C# 12—using actual C# code, not Python wrappers. Figure […]

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