alt Hacker Newsunfortunately JSON is doomed to fail in "the AI era"
LLMs are surprisingly bad at generating JSON.
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afro88 • today at 6:00 AM
Are they in 2026? I haven't had an issue with json and LLMs in a long while
kamikazeturtles • today at 5:59 AM
Why is that?
You can use skills or harnesses to have them validate their json (using plain old JSON validation or schemas) and they seem to have a very high success rate with that gate in place. It's slightly more tokens, but it's reliable