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Understand AI Failure Domains

AI failures can originate from application logic, model behavior, retrieval, tools, providers, infrastructure, data or policy controls.

WHY IT MATTERS

Different failure domains require different mitigations. Retrying a poor retrieval result is not the same as retrying a transient provider timeout.

PRODUCTION EXAMPLE

A chatbot outage might actually be a vector database latency spike, a provider rate limit, an expired tool credential or a newly deployed prompt.

SRE DECISION

Does incident triage classify failures by domain before applying generic retries or restarts?

REMEMBERTreat AI as a distributed system with additional semantic failure modes.
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