Completion
The text or code that an AI model generates and returns in response to a user's prompt.
What it is
A completion is the final output from an LLM. It represents the model's statistical prediction of the most likely sequence of tokens that should follow the input prompt. Completions can be simple text answers, structured JSON payloads, or fully executable code blocks.
When you would use it
You handle completions in your code when receiving the response payload from an AI API endpoint.
Common operations
- Generating a block of code based on a comment.
- Returning structured JSON data to trigger an application workflow.
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