Chapter 20

20Structured Output

Draft pending — this page is an outline of planned content. Write it by creating content/structured-output.md.

20.1Why free text is not an API

Planned: The parsing problem; downstream systems need schemas.

20.2Constrained decoding

Planned: Masking logits to follow a grammar; guaranteed-valid JSON.

20.3Grammars and schemas

Planned: JSON Schema, regex, and context-free grammars as decoding constraints.

20.4Costs and pitfalls

Planned: How constraints can hurt quality; the format-vs-content tension.