Topic

Structured Model Output

The practice of getting machine-readable responses such as JSON out of language models, either by requesting a shape in the prompt or by constraining it at the API layer with a schema.

Current clusters

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Only one of three model backends can refuse a wrongly shaped JSON response

A planning step asked for entities and got a bare array that JSON.parse waved straight through. The repair needed both a schema in the prompt and a wrapper in the parser, because two of the three backends behind the interface can only ask.

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Reality

Evidence45
Adoption12
Hype gap+12
Incentives30
Confidence52