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Structured Outputs and Fallback Chains: How to Stop LLMs From Breaking Your Parser

Part 3 of the AI Engineer Series. Structured outputs are how you stop the model from breaking your downstream code. JSON mode, tool calling, constrained decoding, and the fallback chain pattern that holds when models misbehave.

Harness Engineering: The Code Around Your LLM Calls That Keeps Production Alive

Part 1 of the AI Engineer Series. Prompt engineering gets the spotlight, but in production, most reliability comes from the system around the prompt. This is the harness layer, and most teams underbuild it.