http://programmer.ie/tags/structured-output/ Recent content in Structured Output on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:45:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/browser-ai-from-first-principles/16-chapter/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:45:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/browser-ai-from-first-principles/16-chapter/ <p>JSON feels safer than prose because software can parse it.</p> <p>That is a real advantage. It is not a guarantee that the values are correct, permitted or useful.</p> <p>A model can produce perfectly valid JSON containing a nonexistent file, an unsupported operation, a reversed date range or an action the user never authorized.</p> <p>Structured output is still model output.</p> <hr> <h2 id="1-structure-removes-one-class-of-ambiguity">1. Structure removes one class of ambiguity</h2> <p>Suppose we ask a model to choose a fixture and repetition count. Prose might return:</p>