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Stop Using Chatbots for JSON: Specialized SLMs Are the Fix

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

General-purpose LLMs often fail to output valid JSON, causing parsing errors in production. Workarounds like prompt engineering and JSON mode are unreliable. Specialized small language models like FunctionGemma, trained for tool calling and structured output, offer a deterministic solution.

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The article correctly identifies the mismatch between conversational models and structured data tasks, but the adoption of constrained decoding and specialized SLMs is still early—expect growing pains.
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Arrêtez d'utiliser des "Chatbots" pour formater du JSON : L'avènement des SLMs spécialisés →
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