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The API Said 200 OK. The Model Returned Nothing. My Code Saved It Anyway.

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Last week my nightly summarizer started writing empty strings into the database, and the worst part was that nothing in the logs looked wrong. Every request returned HTTP 200, every response parsed cleanly, and no exception ever fired. The model simply answered with an empty completion, and my code…

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  1. 2026-08-26 02:48 · DEV Community — AI
    The API Said 200 OK. The Model Returned Nothing. My Code Saved It Anyway.

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