A 200 OK Is Not a Finished Answer: Classifying Model-Call Failures Before You Retry
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Last week one generation came back with a 200. My parser died at character 812. So was that a failure? Or a good answer that stopped early? I keep finding the same bug in client code. Every non-200 becomes 'retry'. Every 200 becomes 'done'. Both assumptions burn tokens and hide the real problem. He…
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- 2026-10-27 19:03 · DEV Community — AI
A 200 OK Is Not a Finished Answer: Classifying Model-Call Failures Before You Retry