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Why LLM-Only Parsing Breaks in Production — And What to Do Instead

LLMs can extract structured data from anything — until they cannot. This article documents the failure modes of LLM-only parsing in production pipelines, and presents a layered architecture where determinism comes first and the LLM is used only where it is structurally irreplaceable.

March 25, 2026
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