429 Is Not a Ban: Six Rate-Limit Myths I Had to Unlearn
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I used to treat a 429 like a personal failure. My retry loop hammered the endpoint. The endpoint hammered back. I blamed the server. The server was fine. AI turned every developer into a reviewer. Nobody taught us how to read a 429. So I learned the hard way, probing free model servers for weeks. T…
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- 2026-08-27 01:01 · DEV Community — AI
429 Is Not a Ban: Six Rate-Limit Myths I Had to Unlearn