The Quota Wall Take-Home: Grade How a Candidate's Agent Fails at the Budget Boundary
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Most LLM-backed take-homes are graded on the happy path, where every request succeeds and the output merely looks plausible. This packet grades the opposite surface: the moment a job runs out of request budget and must decide whether to retry, checkpoint, or die loudly. A candidate who never reache…
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- 2026-11-05 15:56 · DEV Community — AI
The Quota Wall Take-Home: Grade How a Candidate's Agent Fails at the Budget Boundary