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48.3 Error patterns and what they usually mean
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- 429 Too Many Requests: You are sending messages too fast. Implement exponential backoff (wait 1s, then 2s, then 4s).
- 400 Bad Request (Safety): You triggered a safety filter (Sex/Hate/Harassment). Check your input data.
- 500 Internal Server Error: Google/OpenAI is down. Retry once, then give up.
- Output truncated: You hit the `max_output_tokens` limit. Increase the limit or ask the model to be brief.