thanks for the shoutout, we benchmarked our approach against other function-calling techniques and we've been able to beat all other approaches every time (even by 8%!) just by getting better at parsing the data and representing schemas with less tokens using type definitions instead of json schema.
We'll be publishing our comparison against OpenAI structured outputs in the next 2 days, and a deeper dive into our results, but we aim to include this kind of constrained generation as a capability in the BAML DSL anyway longterm!
