I was showing ChefExtract to some friends when it started returning error 404 for specific operations linked to AI.
After some embarrassment, I went home to figure out the problem: The model I used for those specific operations had been deprecated.
And just like that, my app was failing.
But I learned my lesson: relying entirely on one API creates a single point of failure (not rocket science).
The easiest fallback mechanism would be to rely on a backup model. But these increase maintenance, and it doesn’t scale well. A better fix relies on AI gateways.






