A 429 Loop Is Not Resilience: Reviewing Agent PRs That Retry Model Calls
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An agent pull request that wraps model calls in retries is a capacity change, not a reliability patch. Trust the error classification and the stop condition. Revert unbounded loops, retries on non-idempotent writes, and any comment that treats a shared server as spare capacity. Prove the budget wit…
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A 429 Loop Is Not Resilience: Reviewing Agent PRs That Retry Model Calls