Design a fallback path for provider outages or rate-limit spikes.

Instruction: Explain how you would design graceful degradation for serving disruptions.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can design a practical architecture and explain the main tradeoffs. Explain how you would design graceful degradation for serving disruptions.

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I would define fallback tiers in advance: traffic shaping, lower-cost model routes for safe request classes, narrower answer styles, deferred processing for non-urgent work, and clear degraded-mode handling for the user when needed.

I do not want the outage path invented in the moment....

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