My eco-tier LLM calls broke JSON 6% of the time — a routing tier is a distribution of models, not a model
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A nightly summarization job I operate started failing in a pattern I couldn't explain: mostly clean JSON, but with bursts of malformed output between 2 and 5am. Same prompt, same temperature, same input shape. Aggregate parse success was ~94%, yet some hours were spotless and others hit 20% failure…
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- 2026-10-08 11:42 · DEV Community — AI
My eco-tier LLM calls broke JSON 6% of the time — a routing tier is a distribution of models, not a model