Artificial Intelligence · Aug 10, 2026 · 24 min
My First Look at the OpenAI API and Prompt Engineering
A beginner's first exploration of using OpenAI models through the API, understanding Responses API calls, model selection, instructions and message roles, prompt engineering, prompt structure, caching, few-shot learning, context windows, and the differences between reasoning and GPT models.
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