Structured Outputs & Tool Use in Production
Stop parsing free text. Make the model return exactly what your code expects.
The practical engineering layer between prompt engineering and agent systems. JSON mode, schema design, validation loops, function calling, streaming structured data, and a golden-dataset test suite — all with runnable Python and TypeScript.
6h
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8
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Lesson 1
Why unstructured output breaks in production
9m35 XPLesson 2
JSON mode and native structured output
12m40 XPLesson 3
Schema design for LLM responses
11m40 XPLesson 4
Validation, retries, and error recovery
12m40 XPLesson 5
Function calling and tool use patterns
14m45 XPLesson 6
Streaming structured outputs
10m35 XPLesson 7
Testing structured LLM outputs
11m40 XPLesson 8
Capstone: a type-safe LLM API in production
16m55 XP
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