Handling LLM Failures Where Output is Unusable Despite Technical Success
Choice-Attorney8884 · reddit · 2026-08-27
The author highlights a tricky issue in LLM integration: HTTP requests, JSON parsing, and schema validation may all succeed, yet the actual content output is unusable. While retries and schema validation handle some error modes, detecting a "bad answer" is often highly application-specific, and sometimes there is no obvious deterministic check. The author seeks best practices for handling this in production.
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