A Timeout Is Not a Failed AI Job: Designing Safe Retries for Paid Generation APIs
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A customer clicks Generate. Your server sends the request, then the connection times out. The tempting fix is to send another request. The expensive possibility is that the first job is already running. This is a distributed-systems problem with a visible price tag. The client knows that it did not…
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- 2026-10-25 04:59 · DEV Community — AI
A Timeout Is Not a Failed AI Job: Designing Safe Retries for Paid Generation APIs