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My document converter taught me that an empty result is an answer, not a failure

I shipped a batch job that fed 400 URLs into my document converter and got back 400 clean Markdown responses. Felt like a win until I sampled the output and found half of them were empty strings. No error, no 500, just silence. That silence was the most useful data in the whole run. I dug into each…

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  1. 2026-11-02 03:04 · DEV Community — AI
    My document converter taught me that an empty result is an answer, not a failure

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