[phh]

I've indeed refused to work with some providers giving only a chat interface and not a completion interface because it made the communication "less natural" to the model (like adding new system messages in between for function calling on models which don't officially does it, or adding other categories than system/user/assistant)

[metaskills]

Great points. Dont even get me started about how function calling in other LLMs costs me tokens. Something OpenAI provides OOTB. I'm also not a big fan of OpenAI's lock in. Right now I'm on a huge Claude 3 Haiku kick. That said, OpenAI does seem to get the APIs right and my hunch is the new Assistants API is going to potentially disrupt things again. Time will tell.

[heggy]

I would love to be using Claude, but you can't get API access (beyond an initial trial period) in the EU without providing a European VAT number. They don't want personal users or people to even learn and experiment I guess.

[bjterry]

You can use the Claude APIs via OpenRouter with a pre-paid account.

[heggy]

Thanks, this did the job!

[metaskills]

Interesting, would Amazon Bedrock be an alternative? That's how I use Claude.

[Jimmc414]

I'd guess it's more likely about the additional programming needed to meet GDPR compliance requirements.

[benreesman]

Opus is really cool. I’ve found it to have a few persistent bugs in what I initially assumed is tokenization but now wonder if might be more fundamental, but modulo a few typographical-level errors, I personally think it’s the most useful of the API-mediated models for involved sessions.

And there are some serious people at Anthropic, they’ll get the typo thing if they haven’t already (been a busy week and change, they easily could have shipped a fix and I overlooked it).

[msp26]

> Dont even get me started about how function calling in other LLMs costs me tokens. Something OpenAI provides out of the box.

Not sure what you mean by this.

[metaskills]

I have some assumptions/guesses on how billing works. Gonna do a post on this on my unremarkable.ai blog, please do signup for posts there, no spam. I could be right or wrong but need to do some experiments and publish later.

[BoorishBears]

I'm not sure you're talking about the same thing: OpenAI specifically has a "Assistants API" that manages long term memory and tool usage for the consumer: https://platform.openai.com/assistants

I'd guestimate 99% of people using LLMs are using instruct-based message interfaces that have a variation of system/user/assistant. The top models mostly only come as a completion models, and even Anthropic has switched to a message based API