06.09
Structured outputs are a decoding constraint
Structured outputs force the model's response to match your JSON schema at the token level, which guarantees the shape but never the correctness, and the schema you pick quietly changes answer quality and cost.
- Designing AI Agents and Tooling
- 16 min
- Pro
Who's hiring for this skill
32 companies have live AI-PM roles that ask for skills taught in this lesson.
- Intercom
- Glean
- Nebius
- Decagon
- Snowflake
- Stripe
- Mistral
- Okta
- Temporal
- Lightning Ai
- Anthropic
- Sierra
- Harvey
- Datadog
- OpenAI
- GitLab
- Databricks
- Vanta
- Gusto
- Cohere
- Fireworks
- JetBrains
- Legora
- Baseten
- Box
- Deepgram
- Docker
- Luma AI
- Notion
- Bland Ai
- Sardine
- Together AI
This subchapter is part of the paid course.
Its video, its written lesson, its exercise and its grading are all included on any plan. The free subchapters stay free either way.