{"id":40129,"date":"2026-04-03T10:27:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/failure-data-success-data\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:27:44","slug":"failure-data-success-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/failure-data-success-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure Data &gt; Success Data&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I\u2019ve been thinking about this a lot recently:<\/p>\n<p>Most teams training LLMs for workflows focus heavily on <em>successful traces<\/em> \u2014 clean executions, ideal outputs, perfect tool calls.<\/p>\n<p>But in real systems, that\u2019s not where the useful signal is.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting part is actually:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>where the model <em>breaks<\/em><\/li>\n<li>where it calls the wrong tool<\/li>\n<li>where it loops or stalls in multi-step flows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That\u2019s where you start seeing patterns.<\/p>\n<p>It almost feels like we\u2019re missing a layer of training data that explicitly captures:<br \/> \u2192 failure states<br \/> \u2192 retries<br \/> \u2192 decision mistakes<\/p>\n<p>Instead of just \u201cwhat to do,\u201d we need \u201cwhat not to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Curious if others here are logging and structuring failure traces systematically, or just patching issues ad hoc?<\/p>\n<p>(We\u2019ve been experimenting with datasets around this at <a href=\"http:\/\/dinodsai.com\/\">dinodsai.com<\/a> \u2014 still early, but the shift in behavior is noticeable)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/JayPatel24_\"> \/u\/JayPatel24_ <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1sb7hku\/failure_data_success_data\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1sb7hku\/failure_data_success_data\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-40129 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='40129' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-40129 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-40129 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been thinking about this a lot recently: Most teams training LLMs for workflows focus heavily on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}