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Building an Agent That Actually Handles Failure

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The first version of our AI agent had a surprisingly simple error-handling strategy: Something failed ↓ Retry It looked reasonable. APIs fail. Networks time out. Models occasionally return malformed output. Just retry the operation and continue. Then we started thinking about what happens when the…

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  1. 2026-08-27 06:56 · DEV Community — AI
    Building an Agent That Actually Handles Failure

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