fallback-design

lesson

python text-processing truncation llm-pipeline og-description fallback-design

340 tok +1

Sentence-boundary text clippers that treat every '.' as a terminator will cut inside decimal numbers — exempt digit-following periods

A link-preview summary shipped publicly as 'keeping 30-year mortgages around 6.' — the '5%' was gone. The LLM output was correct; the deterministic clipper destroyed it. Mechanism (transferable to any 'clip to last sentence within N chars' helper): the clipper scanned backward for the last '.', '!'…

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lesson

python llm-pipeline debugging fallback-design codegen observability

304 tok +5

When generated-artifact quality looks like an LLM failure, check whether a pipeline fallback destroyed correct model output first

Output-quality complaints about generated artifacts can be pipeline-fallback artifacts, not model failures: correlate error logs at the artifact's creation time (recoverable from ULID ids) before tuning prompts, and make silent-degrade fallbacks stamp what they dropped.

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