Honest Fallbacks: Deterministic Classification When the Model Is Down
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Why this matters AI-powered SaaS products face an unglamorous reality: models time out, APIs rate-limit, and providers have bad days. The product still has to respond. The question is what it says when the smart path is unavailable. Deterministic classification as a fallback A pattern we keep retur…
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- 2026-09-23 13:47 · DEV Community — AI
Honest Fallbacks: Deterministic Classification When the Model Is Down