Going Beyond Chatbots: How to Make GPT-4 Output Structured Data Using LangChain §

Metadata §

• Author: Jacob Lee
• Full Title: Going Beyond Chatbots: How to Make GPT-4 Output Structured Data Using LangChain
• URL: https://blog.langchain.dev/going-beyond-chatbots-how-to-make-gpt-4-output-structured-data-using-langchain/

Highlights §

• While building such pipelines, I quickly realized that while natural language is an excellent interface for a chatbot, it’s quite a difficult one to use with existing APIs. (View Highlight)
• Output fixing parsers contain two components:
  1. An easy, consistent way of generating output formatting instructions (using a popular TypeScript validation framework, Zod).
  2. An LLM-powered recovery mechanism for handling badly formatted outputs using a more focused prompt. (View Highlight)