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4.4 Validation and retries
Part of the Claude from Zero to Mastery (Claude Certified Architect prep) course
Before this: Lesson 4.3.
A schema says the output is well shaped, not that it is correct. When your system finds a wrong value, when and how should you retry, and when is retrying just burning money? ...
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Start this lesson4.4 Validation and retriesWhat you'll learn
- The story: an invoice whose total did not add up
- What does validation mean?
- The right retry: send three things
- When does retrying help?
- Design the schema so it shows contradictions
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