AI ENGINEER DEX
RetiredSupersededRE-001Retired Aug 2024

Re-prompt until the JSON parses

Retry logic, regex repair and prompt-begging to coax valid JSON out of a model.

WHAT CHANGED

WasRe-prompt until the JSON parses
NowSchema-constrained decoding

It still works — you're paying for tokens and latency that buy nothing.

SOURCES

START HEREIntroducing Structured Outputs in the APIBlog · OpenAI · Aug 2024
BlogStructured outputs on the Claude Developer PlatformAnthropic · adopted by · Nov 2025

RING HISTORY

Aug 2026 — set to Retired. Superseded across three labs.

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