48-Hour Field Notes: My Prompt Budget Was in Characters, and the Overflow Never Raised
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Silent truncation is the worst kind of bug in a batch job, because the run exits zero and the output still looks like prose. I spent two days chasing one that never raised an exception, never logged a warning, and only showed up as answers that stopped mid-thought. What would you blame first — the…
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- 2026-10-27 03:29 · DEV Community — AI
48-Hour Field Notes: My Prompt Budget Was in Characters, and the Overflow Never Raised