Valid JSON, Wrong Order: Five Structured-Output Myths and a Three-Gate Replay Test
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A pipeline of mine broke last week. Not on a timeout. Not on a 500. It broke because the model returned 'quantity': '3' . A string. Twelve downstream orders went out with a quantity of zero. So let me ask the boring question. Would your tests have caught that? Mine did not, and I wrote them. Here a…
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Valid JSON, Wrong Order: Five Structured-Output Myths and a Three-Gate Replay Test