Ambiguous submission outcomes should never be retried
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Every retry policy you have ever configured treats a failed operation the same way: back off, try again, repeat until it succeeds. That reflex is correct for idempotent work — fetching a page, writing a log line, queueing a message. It is wrong for exactly one operation that job-application automat…
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- 2026-09-23 01:03 · DEV Community — AI
Ambiguous submission outcomes should never be retried