The Silent Downstream Crash: Why Mid-Flight LLM Failover Breaks Agent Tool Calls (And How We Solved It in 0.0028ms)
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When building autonomous AI agents with LangChain, Claude Code, CrewAI, or AutoGen, high availability is considered solved by placing an LLM gateway in front of upstream providers. If Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet or DeepSeek V4 times out or returns 429 Rate Limit , the router catches the error and r…
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- 2026-09-05 12:02 · DEV Community — AI
The Silent Downstream Crash: Why Mid-Flight LLM Failover Breaks Agent Tool Calls (And How We Solved It in 0.0028ms)