AI article
Why Your OpenAI JSON Calls Randomly Fail with "could not parse JSON body" (And How to Fix It)
Community description: You're calling OpenAI from Node.js. 99% of requests work. Then randomly: BadRequestError: 400...
Dev.to | Sep 18, 2026 | zey-netizen
Automated excerpt
Model-side tool call malformation — the model emits single quotes, trailing commas, or markdown code fences inside function. arguments. You don't sanitize tool call args, so malformed JSON still crashes downstream. You add 20 lines of retry boilerplate per call site.
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