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by alwillis 86 days ago
> but if there is a deterministic option, why would you choose something that might give you the wrong answer?

Claude Code can use jq if it's installed on your system. Also, the data transformation is usually part of a larger workflow where an LLM is being used. And honestly, Claude is going to know jq better than 95% of developers who use it. jq can do a lot of things but it’s not the most intuitive tool to learn.

An obvious best practice is to have the LLM use existing tools to confirm the correctness of its output.