The Model Returned Valid JSON. My Parser Still Threw a SyntaxError.
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I spent an afternoon building a tiny structured-extraction pipeline on MonkeyCode's free server, using a free model to turn messy support notes into clean JSON records. The model answered, the log output looked flawless, and then json.loads() exploded on the very first character of the response. Th…
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- 2026-08-25 00:04 · DEV Community — AI
The Model Returned Valid JSON. My Parser Still Threw a SyntaxError.