LLM JSON Outputs Are Structurally Invalid, Requiring Defensive Parsing
Language models consistently produce JSON that is almost-valid but unparseable: markdown-wrapped, prose-prefixed, trailing commas, or mistyped primitives. Every team building AI applications implements the same fragile cleanup logic independently. There is no standard library or service that reliably repairs, validates, and coerces LLM-generated structured output before it reaches application logic.
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