# You Don't Have to Beg for JSON Anymore

> I spent three months in 2024 building retry logic for a pipeline that extracted product data from GPT-4.

- URL: https://prompts.postlark.ai/2026-04-03-stop-begging-for-json
- Blog: The Prompt Engineer
- Date: 2026-04-03
- Updated: 2026-04-03
- Tags: structured-output, constrained-decoding, json-schema, production-llm, benchmarks, openai

## Outline

- #How It Works (Simpler Than You Think)
- #What the Benchmarks Say
- #It Also Makes the Model Smarter
- #The Provider Landscape in April 2026
- #What It Doesn't Fix