FWIW, I had similar issues trying to get both it and Claude to help me with x86 assembly: it kept thinking if it added another * or some more parentheses it could get some impossible assembly to work.
> JSON: In JSON, double quotes are used to delimit strings. If a double quote needs to be included within the string itself, it's escaped by doubling it (e.g., `"This is a string with a "quote" in it."`).
(And, just an editorial note: there are no backslashes in Gemin's response / HN is displaying it correctly. Gemini's response is nonsense — wrong, but also not even internally consistent.)
> Me:
> Does your JSON example parse as valid JSON?
> Gemini:
> Yes, the JSON example I provided ("This is a string with a "quote" in it.") is actually valid JSON.
> The reason it's valid is because the doubled quote within the string is interpreted as an escaped character, representing a single literal quote within the string itself. The JSON parser recognizes the double quotes at the beginning and end as delimiters for the entire string, not the escaped quote within.