Developing AI Systems with the OpenAI API

Course overview

Practical guide to building applications with the OpenAI API: structuring requests, formatting model outputs as JSON, error handling and function calls. Also covers moderation and mitigations to reduce risks when deploying models to production.

Explains how to design end-to-end application flows with well-formed API calls and how to parse model responses, including formatting outputs as JSON for downstream consumption.

Covers function-calling patterns to extract structured data from text and how to use the tools parameter to orchestrate external actions.

Reviews production best practices: moderation strategies, prompt‑injection mitigations and adding safety sliders or controls to constrain model behavior.