A retry costs the whole context, not the failed call
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A retry in an agent loop is not a second try at a request. It is a second try at the conversation that produced the request, and you're billed for all of it. Nobody prices that. Every cost dashboard I've seen counts calls, and calls are the wrong unit the moment a turn can fail. The arithmetic A pl…
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- 2026-10-12 04:18 · DEV Community — AI
A retry costs the whole context, not the failed call