Structured Output for LLMs in 2026 — Pydantic AI, Instructor, and the End of JSON Parsing

Reliable structured output from LLMs in 2026. Pydantic AI, Instructor, OpenAI’s structured outputs / Anthropic tool calling, retry-on-validation patterns, and the end of homemade JSON parsing.

April 30, 2026 · 6 min · 1273 words · Manvendra Rajpoot