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Discussion about using the OpenAI API, including authentication, rate limits, SDKs, and integration.
Our company network requires all outbound traffic to go through a corporate proxy. I'm struggling to configure the OpenAI Python SDK to work with it.
I'm trying to understand how prompt caching affects my token usage and billing. My system prompt is ~4000 tokens and I'm making thousands of calls per
We're running OpenAI API calls in a production microservices architecture and need to implement key rotation. Currently we have a single API key hardc
I'm using streaming with the Chat Completions API and noticing that some chunks are being dropped, resulting in incomplete responses. This happens abo
With the new Responses API, I wanted to document my migration experience from Chat Completions. Key differences 1. Input format is simplified — no
Tip for anyone running OpenAI API calls in production: always log the request ID from response headers. python response = client.chat.completions.wit
I just finished processing 1.2 million legal documents through the Batch API and wanted to share some lessons learned: What worked Batch API's 50%
Proper retry logic is essential for production OpenAI API usage. Here's my battletested implementation: python import time import random from openai
After migrating from gpt3.5turbo to gpt4omini, I'm seeing a massive spike in 429 rate limit errors even though my request volume hasn't changed. My s
When using function calling with GPT4o, the model sometimes returns multiple tool_calls in a single response for parallel execution. I'm struggling wi