@Marvin I've joined Prefect Cloud. Why can't I see openAI under blocks?

hi @Ben Brink - there is not an official OpenAI block - what are you looking for?

Thanks. I'm looking to connect an LLM

gotcha! is it openai? i.e. can you just set

OPENAI_API_KEY

and then use

from openai import OpenAI; OpenAI()

etc

I'm trying to learn RAG through Prefect, so I am not that experienced. I saw that there were several OpenAI blocks in the blocks section on a youtube tutorial about Prefect, and thought that I could learn something by looking at them.

ah! so in Prefect you're free to make custom blocks and then register them to your workspace, perhaps someone had done that @Marvin tldr prefect blocks

Thanks. That explains why I could't find them. I will look at your example

ill point you a couple places: • docs quickstart • unofficial youtube videos (me) if you prefer this format tldr • write vanilla python functions • add

@task

on top of functions that you want to be able to add retries or caching to (tasks are atomic pieces of work) • add

@flow

on top of functions you want to deploy (flows compose other pieces of work) so the bare minimum to "do prefect" is

pip install -U prefect

main.py

import prefect

@flow
def arbitrary_python_code(x: int, y: str, z: bool):
  pass

if __name__ == "__main__":
  arbitrary_python_code(42, "foo", False)