Untrue in my testing. If you want to use chain of thought, you can always throw in a `thoughts` field (json field/xml tags) before the rest of your output.
If you want to be really sure, you can also first ask it to respond in chat format, and then ask it again to respond in JSON format, if you can afford the cost.
If you want to be really sure, you can also first ask it to respond in chat format, and then ask it again to respond in JSON format, if you can afford the cost.