LAYER 4 · APPLIED AI · STAGE 4
LLM APIs for FDEs
Quick answer
Calling hosted language models from your own code. This is the base layer of every applied AI deployment.
Practise it
- 1. Call a model with structured output
- 2. Stream a response and handle errors
- 3. Track token use and cost per request
Where it sits
Stage 4 of the roadmap: Applied AI. You can build an LLM feature on private data and prove it works.
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