Disclosure: I wrote this article together with an AI assistant (Claude). The AI wrote and ran all the code below and checked the results. I'm not a professional programmer, so please read it with that in mind. LLM APIs return HTTP 200 even when the output stops because it hit the token limit.…
I had a recurring need: a reproducible, offline snapshot of the remote-job market I could open in a spreadsheet, load into a database, or feed into a script — without scraping five job boards myself, juggling five different site formats, or maintaining five scraping pipelines that break every time…
For supplier invoice extraction, an in-app chatbot should put OpenAI, Claude, and every other AI API behind one application-owned adapter. Run one recorded conversation unchanged against every candidate, then select on accepted JSON extractions, not token pricing or an advertised context window.…
Working with JSON in JavaScript means dealing with one constant problem: is this string actually valid JSON, and how do I make it readable? Whether you're debugging an API response or hand-writing a config file, here are the essential techniques. Validating JSON with try/catch JSON.parse() throws a…
This is a submission for the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge . What I Benchmarked A tested implementation, an open pull request, maintainer acceptance, a merge, and actual payment are different events. I built Cash Evidence Boundaries to test whether models keep those events separate, preserve…
SyntaxError: Unexpected token } in JSON at position 212 is one of the least helpful error messages a developer sees. It tells you that the JSON is broken, but not why , and the position is a character offset you have to count to. The good news: almost every JSON error comes from the same short list…
ometimes you get a huge JSON array, a few thousand records in one file, and you need it in smaller pieces. Maybe an API only accepts 500 items at a time, or your editor chokes on the file. The easy way is to paste it into an online tool. But if the data is private, uploading it to a random server…
TL;DR : Since 0.34.4, Ollama applies a format schema on a thinking model as a single grammar: anything until the thinking block closes, then the schema. That grammar also allows the response to end before the closing, and it treats everything up to the closing as thinking. So when a model like…
Changing one retry policy in a Step Functions workflow can mean editing the same block of JSON on every Task that uses it. A workflow is defined in the Amazon States Language (ASL), a JSON document of states that name each other, with the logic in expressions. Writing it by hand means wiring every…
