Instruction: Describe how you would handle a hard cost cap in a live AI product.
Context: Tests how the candidate diagnoses the problem, chooses the safest next step, and reasons through recovery. Describe how you would handle a hard cost cap in a live AI product.
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I would propose controlled degradation instead of a blind cap. A hard cost cap without workflow strategy usually just creates hidden failure, poor routing, or long queues that users eventually feel anyway.
A better approach is to define priority tiers, cheaper safe paths for lower-value requests,...
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