Dariusz Debowczyk

LLM structured outputs are your "make money" button

@antirez @AdrienBrault The cost of naive / junior devs using AI to quickly execute bad ideas is going to make competent senior devs 10x more valuable.

Wow, I totally disagree with this statement. At the current state, AI actually amplifies the developer to developer difference. If you were a 10x developer, you had good ideas + architectural clarity, this is a brutal advantage when using AI. Steering is a fundamental part of today's AI development.

Check the project webpage: instructorphp.com

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Instructor for PHP v2.2.0 is available with deep telemetry across the stack - for structured outputs, but also for inference, agent controller and agent runs, down to HTTP requests. It comes with preconfigured, ready to use integration with #Logfire by @samuelcolvin, #Langfuse by @Langfuse (and generic OpenTelemetry support).

Instructor PHP now ships with an Agent SDK. Give your agent tools and a task — it loops autonomously, deciding which actions to take. No orchestration code. Here: a BashTool agent that runs shell commands on its own. docs.instructorphp.com/packages/agent…

Instructor for PHP 2.0.0 is released with new faster and more memory efficient streaming of structured outputs. It is leaner and cleaner, more reliable and has a better, more consistent API. Instructor contains a lightweight agent SDK and allows you to control coding agents like Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode or Pi Mono with live streamed responses and safe sandbox execution. Check more: instructorphp.com

Instructor for PHP v1.16.0 is now available with pluggable extraction mechanism, support for manual schema and array responses (not just objects) and metrics collection. Enjoy. github.com/cognesy/instru…

🐦 Wishing everyone a happy and productive 2026!

Instructor for PHP v1.14 & 1.15 add improved native support for Laravel and AgentCtrl layer for integrating CLI agents into your PHP code (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, OpenCode). Check the details here: github.com/cognesy/instru…

Instructor for PHP v1.12.0 is released. The main focus of this version has been refactoring of LLM data streaming for improved speed and reduced memory use (via transducer based pipeline). It also makes the code easier to extend with new modes that I've been experimenting with (coming soon). New version adds curl as default HTTP driver, which makes it usable without installing any extra HTTP client packages (Instructor supports Guzzle, Symfony HTTP and Laravel HTTP). github.com/cognesy/instru…

@vanlancker @untitleddotnew Yes

In addition to @untitleddotnew, I wrote a comprehensive “how-to” guide that covers the art and act of naming. With this process, you can name anything in an afternoon. It is incredibly thorough but can be moved through efficiently. How to Name Anything in an Afternoon

@zby Great post and article. Impressive work, Zbigniew.

Can LLMs discover ideas they weren't trained on? Not by accident—by design. I built a system to test this: reinvent Gwern's daydreaming AI essay using only models from before it was published. Results: github.com/zby/DayDreamin… @gwern

Instructor for PHP v1.11.0 is available. v1.11 initiates the transition towards transducer based stream processing, which will allow more flexibility around building and modifying internal processing pipelines. Summary of changes: - New stream package with functional stream processing library with 24+ sources, 40+ transducers, and reducers - Streaming architecture completely redesigned for modularity and testability - New data structures (Deque, Buffer, RingBuffer) and error collection system - Better PHPDoc annotations and flexible type hints github.com/cognesy/instru…

Instructor for PHP v1.10.0 is released. Instructor provides unified LLM inference API across multiple providers and dev friendly way of generating structured data from unstructured inputs (text, image, etc.). - improved type safety with drastically reduced number of Psalm / PHPstan issues - corrected defects in inference drivers - minor improvements in internal classes (Result, ArrayList) - bug fixes and code cleanup github.com/cognesy/instru…

Instructor for PHP v1.9.0 is out. Instructor offers dev friendly unified API for working with various LLM APIs and several mechanisms of getting structured outputs from unstructured data sources (text, images). The main improvement in 1.9.0 is a better and more cohesive execution model. It also includes updates to stepped use of tools and execution of multi participant chats (e.g. to facilitate various panel of judges scenarios). github.com/cognesy/instru…

Instructor for PHP 1.8 has been released with improvements in tool use, multi-participant chat engine, more data structures rewritten as immutable and bug fixes.