Towards Data Science June 16, 2026 By Emmimal P Alexander

LLM Fallbacks Break Agent Pipelines — I Built the Missing Recovery Layer

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LLM rate limits don't just interrupt agent pipelines—they can silently corrupt structured outputs when fallback models receive incompatible payloads. I built a recovery layer that classifies failures, adapts payloads across model tiers, preserves execution state, and maintains schema integrity during provider swaps.

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