Using a Language Model in Code › Looking Ahead

You now know how to call a language model from code. This is the foundation, but it's just the beginning. Our assistant can respond to individual questions, but it can't:

• Remember previous parts of the conversation
• Use tools like calculators or search engines
• Reason through complex problems step by step
• Plan multi-step tasks
• Take actions beyond generating text

Each of these capabilities builds on what we've learned here. The next chapter introduces prompting, the art and science of communicating effectively with language models. You'll learn how to craft instructions that get better results, how to guide the model's reasoning, and how small changes in wording can dramatically affect output quality.

The model is now listening. Let's learn to speak its language.