Announcing instructor=1.0.0¶
Over the past 10 months, we've build up instructor with the principle of 'easy to try, and easy to delete'. We accomplished this by patching the openai client with the instructor package and adding new arguments like response_model, max_retries, and validation_context. As a result I truely believe isntructor is the best way to get structured data out of llm apis.
But as a result, we've been a bit stuck on getting typing to work well while giving you more control at development time. I'm excited to launch version 1.0.0 which cleans up the api w.r.t. typing without compromising the ease of use.
Over the past 10 months, we've enjoyed healthy growth with over 4000+ github stars and 100+ contributors, and more importantly, 120k monthly downloads, and 20k unique monthly visitors with 500k requests per month to our docs
When I first started working on this project, my goal was to ensure that we weren't introducing any new standards. Instead, our focus was on maintaining compatibility with existing ones. By creating our own client, we can seamlessly proxy OpenAI's chat.completions.create and Anthropic's messages.create methods. This approach allows us to provide a smooth upgrade path for your client, enabling support for all the latest models and features as they become available. Additionally, this strategy safeguards us against potential downstream changes.
