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		ekianjo 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google is killing the open web LLMs produce much more consistent XML than JSON because JSON is a horrible language that can be formatted in 30 different ways with tons of useless spaces everywhere, making for terrible next token prediction.

AgentME 6 months ago [–]

Uh can't XML have whitespace throughout it just as much as JSON? They seem pretty similar in this respect.

    <foo    bar="x"  baz  = "y" />

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