A workflow you run by hand fails in front of you. A scheduled one fails while you sleep. The difference is not whether it fails, it is whether you find out, and whether it did damage on the way down.
The three failures
- Transient. The API was slow, the token expired, the network blinked. Retrying fixes it.
- Bad input. An email with no body, a feed item with no date, a row with text where a number should be. Retrying does not fix it; skipping does.
- Logic. The model returned the wrong shape, or a step produced something downstream cannot use. Only a human fixes it.
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