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AI Engineer Summit 2026

Oct 12–13, 2026Moscone West, San Francisco

Two days for the people building AI systems that have to work on Monday morning. Practitioner talks on evaluation, agents, retrieval, inference infrastructure and the product decisions in between — no keynote fluff, no vendor pitches.

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AI EngineeringLightning talk

Structured output without the sadness

When
Monday, October 1202:00 AM - 02:45 AM PDT
Where
Main StageSeats 300
Format
Lightning talk
Track
AI Engineering
Level
Beginner
Language
English
structured-outputtooling

About this session

Ten minutes on getting reliable JSON out of a language model: schema design that models can actually follow, constrained decoding, repair strategies, and when to stop fighting and use two calls.

Speaker

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Yara Haddad

Senior Engineer

Cirrus Payments

Yara works on the developer platform at Cirrus Payments and maintains two widely used open-source schema libraries.

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