# 7 Things That Break LLM Apps in Production

DevFeed: [7 Things That Break LLM Apps in Production](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/7-things-that-break-llm-apps-in-production-18105.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://thetshaped.dev/p/7-things-that-break-llm-apps-in-production-ai>)

Author: The T-Shaped Dev

Published: 2026-07-08T10:20:03Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [The T-Shaped Dev](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-t-shaped-dev.md>)

Topics: [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>)

## AI overview

A practical guide to seven production failure modes in LLM applications, using an email-drafting agent outage to show why network calls need timeouts, cancellation, bounded retries, and resilient workflow design.

## Source excerpt

The demo works on your machine. Here's what takes it down when real users show up.