How do you design degraded behavior?
Practice this question- Define acceptable alternatives per task: verified templates, search results, paused durable work, or staff escalation.
- Preserve data/permission/quality contracts and distinguish missing evidence, service failure, and unknown commit outcomes explicitly.
Adapted from 13_AI.MD · “29.21 AI system design”. Code examples are study fragments. Difficulty and core labels are editorial estimates; version-specific behavior should be checked against your project.