As you can see, Claude is returning the requested output but my guess is that the xml declaration on top of the model’s response is stopping the XML parser from properly parsing it back into a python object. Why is Claude adding this even if we didn’t ask it to? Due to lack of more specific examples, it’s following the pattern established by provided inputs that too include the xml declaration.

I obviously selected components of the technology stack that I am most familiar with but they’re exchangeable. In this episode I will deploy a web application in python built on top of the gradio and langchain libraries. We’ll be using AWS as a IaaS provider and the provider of the Anthropic’s Claude 2.x model hosted via Bedrock.

Unfortunately for us security geeks all of these tasks, while simple, come in overwhelming volumes. Soon it seems that we’re swamped by mundane tasks that are way below our skill levels. While this work is necessary and valuable, we soon start feeling like a cog in a machine. Disconnected from the goals, our work philosophy. Dreaming about violently bringing down the system that we ourselves established in some peculiar revolution. Well, let’s make this revolution a constructive one!