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Structured outputs as application contracts
Community description: Your LLM Output Should Have a Contract, Not a Vibe So there I was, an AI engineer at a...
Dev.to | Oct 7, 2026 | Salmon Joy
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The user typed “I just got a promotion, how much should I loan? ” and the model spat back a paragraph that looked like poetry: “Congrats! By versioning the schema ("$schema": "http://json-schema. org/draft-07/schema#", "title": "QuizV2"), we could roll out a new field “explanation” without breaking older clients. Define a JSON Schema, generate typed interfaces, validate, version, and let refusals be your safety net.
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