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How to write a Zed extension for a made up language
Exploring the fascinating world of Wasm, Zed extensions and LSP
Egor Lukiyanov
about 2 months ago
The curious case of environment variables
Environment variables in BAML are not as simple as they seem. It's tricky to pass and read them from the generated languages runtime. This post talks about how we solved this problem by lazily loading them!
Rahul Tiwari
about 2 months ago
Tech Preview: Workflows
Specify complex workflows directly in BAML
Greg Hale
about 2 months ago
Lambda the Ultimate AI Agent
A new take on Agentic frameworks
Greg Hale
3 months ago
Tutorial - An Agentic AI App with Streaming
An end-to-end agentic chatbot tutorial for React devs
Greg Hale
3 months ago
Tool use with Llama API (and reasoning)
How to do tool-calling or function-calling with Llama API (with reasoning)
Vaibhav Gupta
3 months ago
Structured outputs with Llama 4
How to do tool-calling or function-calling with Llama 4
Vaibhav Gupta
4 months ago
Structured outputs with QwQ 32B
How to use QwQ 32B to do function calling or tool calls
Aaron Villalpando
5 months ago
Full stack BAML with React/Next.js
Auto generated React hooks for your BAML functions
Chris Watts
6 months ago
Structured outputs with Gemini 2.0
How to do tool-calling or function-calling with Gemini 2.0
Aaron Villalpando
6 months ago
Structured outputs with o3-mini
How to do tool-calling or function-calling with o3-mini
Vaibhav Gupta
6 months ago
BAML Launch Week Day 5
Roadmap to BAML 1.0
Vaibhav Gupta
6 months ago
BAML Launch Week Day 4
Semantic Streaming
Greg Hale
6 months ago
BAML Launch Week Day 3
Type System
Antonio Sarosi
6 months ago
BAML Launch Week Day 2
BAML Chat
Sam Lijin
6 months ago
BAML Launch Week Day 1
VS Code LLM Playground 2.0
Aaron Villalpando
6 months ago
AI Agents Need a New Syntax
A proposal for a new way to build AI applications and agents
Vaibhav Gupta
6 months ago
BAML Launch Week Announcement
Join us on January 27-31
Vaibhav Gupta
7 months ago
Structured outputs with Deepseek R1
How to do tool-calling or function-calling with Deepseek R1
Vaibhav Gupta
7 months ago
Cursor support for BAML
BAML is now supported in Cursor
Sam Lijin
8 months ago
Structured outputs with Open AI O1
How to use Open AI O1 to do function calling or tool calls
Vaibhav Gupta
8 months ago
A new trick for generating code in JSON
BAML now supports parsing triple-backtick code blocks in LLM outputs
Sam Lijin
8 months ago
Announcing LLM Eval Support for Python, Ruby, Typescript, Go, and more.
Use BAML to evaluate your LLM applications regardless of the language you use to call them
Greg Hale
8 months ago
Generating Structured Output from a Dynamic JSON schema
Modify LLM response models at runtime.
Aaron Villalpando
8 months ago
Every Way To Get Structured Output From LLMs
A survey of every framework for extracting structured output from LLMs, and how they compare.
Sam Lijin
8 months ago
Semantic Streaming vs Token-based Streaming
A new technique for streaming structured output from LLMs
Aaron Villalpando
9 months ago
Bringing Structured Outputs and Schema-Aligned Parsing to Golang, Java, PHP, Ruby, Rust, and More
BAML now integrates with OpenAPI, allowing you to call BAML functions from any language.
Sam Lijin
11 months ago
Structured Output with Ollama
Getting structured output out of Ollama, using novel parsing techniques.
Sam Lijin
12 months ago
Beating OpenAI's structured outputs on cost, accuracy and speed — An interactive deep-dive
We leveraged a novel technique, schema-aligned parsing, to achieve SOTA on BFCL with every LLM.
Vaibhav Gupta
12 months ago
Transparency as a Tenet
Exposing the inner workings of BAML
Anish Palakurthi
about 1 year ago
Building a New Programming Language in 2024, pt. 1
An overview of the work that goes into building a new programming language.
Sam Lijin
about 1 year ago
Use Audio with your LLMs!
Capturing Non-Text Information and Richer Context with LLMs
Anish Palakurthi
about 1 year ago
Announcing Gemini Support!
Applying structure to Gemini output with BAML
Anish Palakurthi
about 1 year ago
Building RAG in Ruby, using BAML, with streaming!
How to do RAG with Ruby streaming AI APIs
Sam Lijin
about 1 year ago
Build RAG with citations in NextJS (with streaming!)
How to do RAG with NextJS streaming AI APIs
Aaron Villalpando
about 1 year ago
Your prompts are using 4x more tokens than you need
A deep-dive into how to use type-definitions instead of json schemas in prompt engineering to improve accuracy and reduce costs
Aaron Villalpando
over 1 year ago
Announcing BAML - The typesafe interface to LLMs, with built-in testing, guardrails and observability
BAML is a lightweight programming language to help perform structured prompting in a typesafe way.
Vaibhav Gupta
over 1 year ago