A fallback model reduces incidents and creates subtle quality drift. How would you handle that?

Instruction: Describe how you would manage a backup model that is safer operationally but weaker in quality.

Context: Tests how the candidate diagnoses the problem, chooses the safest next step, and reasons through recovery. Describe how you would manage a backup model that is safer operationally but weaker in quality.

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I would measure the fallback path as its own product surface. If the fallback reduces hard failures but changes style, support level, or decision quality in ways users can feel, that drift deserves explicit evaluation rather than being treated as an acceptable blur....

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