Stop Doing Function Calling with JSON: The Tokenization Trap
voooooogel · x · 2026-08-13
A developer argues that forcing LLMs to output JSON for function calling is fundamentally flawed. Due to tokenizer mechanics, this practice pushes models to generate out-of-distribution tokens, leading to unpredictable parsing errors and hallucinated syntax.
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