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your watsonx.ai error isnt a network error, its a missing env var

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An agent wired up watsonx.ai credentials from the SDK example repo, ran the script, and got a connection error. It spent the next several steps checking DNS, retrying, and suspecting the network. The actual bug: WATSONX_URL was empty. A missing URL never reads as an auth error. It reads as a networ…

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  1. 2026-10-01 16:58 · DEV Community — AI
    your watsonx.ai error isnt a network error, its a missing env var

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