A Pairing Hour on Retries: The Failure Taxonomy We Kept and the Three Loops We Deleted
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A review bot retried a single file 41 times overnight. The model was fine. The loop was the bug. A senior engineer joined for one hour, and the hour turned into an argument about what deserves a retry rather than how long the backoff should be. What follows is the questions asked, the three dead en…
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A Pairing Hour on Retries: The Failure Taxonomy We Kept and the Three Loops We Deleted