Stop Wasting Tokens: A Smarter Alternative to JSON for LLM Pipelines
# Introduction JSON is great for APIs, storage, and application logic. But inside large language model (LLM) pipelines, it often carries a lot of token overhead that does not add much value to the model: braces, quotes, commas, and repeated field names on every row. TOON, short for Token-Oriented Object Notation, is a newer format …
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