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@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ def greeting():
People expect that it would be easier and more reliable
for aider to parse a nicely formatted json
response more like this:
response, like this:
```
{
@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ response more like this:
}
```
This seems even more tempting as LLMs get better tooling for reliably generating
This seems even more tempting as LLMs
get better tooling for reliably generating
valid json, or even enforcing that it meets a specific schema.
For example, OpenAI recently announced
[strict enforcement of json responses]().
@ -126,13 +127,16 @@ emit it wrapped in json.
In some sense this shouldn't be surprising.
Just look at the very simple
json example above, with the escaped
quotes `\"` quotes
quotes `\"` and
newlines `\n`
mixed into the code.
Coding is complicated enough without having to escape all the special characters too.
If I asked you to write me a program, would you do a better job
typing it into a text file or hand typing it as a properly escaped json string?
If you tried to write a program,
would you do a better job
typing it normally
or as a properly escaped
json string?
## Quantifying the benefits of plain text