Your Free AI Server Will Fail Quietly. Five Gates to Make It Loud. The model can be innocent. The...
Your Free AI Server Will Fail Quietly. Five Gates to Make It Loud.
The model can be innocent. The server cannot.
Earlier this week I wrote a fail-closed checklist for AI-generated code. That list guards against the model writing something dangerous. This list guards against something duller: the server around it dying at 2 a.m. while the model stays online the whole time.
Nobody sees that failure until a user does.
The setup
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