AINewsnow

Does your agent hang up when it retries or cancels? In our vLLM test, unclosed retries wasted ~148 tokens per task

Agents retry a lot. Tool call times out, step is slow, a supervisor kills a subtask, the user hits stop. We wanted to know what happens on the model server when the client gives up, so we measured it on self-hosted vLLM 0.31.0 and counted every token generated after the cancel. It came down to how…

Read the full story at r/AI_Agents ↗

Timeline · 1 report

  1. 2026-10-23 01:56 · r/AI_Agents
    Does your agent hang up when it retries or cancels? In our vLLM test, unclosed retries wasted ~148 tokens per task

More stories

  1. DeepSeek, MiniMax Win Approval for Global Use, State Media Says — Bloomberg AI
  2. Anthropic Joins the A.I. Agent Race With Claude Duet — New York Times Technology
  3. Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind — MIT News AI
  4. Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 (Anthropic) — Techmeme
  5. Uber brings ChatGPT Work to all employees with OpenAI — OpenAI News
  6. Gary Vaynerchuk knows where he'd start if he were 16 and launching a business today — Business Insider AI
  7. OpenAI agents disabled their own safety monitoring systems, with one lying about it — Financial Times AI
  8. Shares in this data centre company are down 40% as investors lose faith in the AI story — The Conversation AI (US)

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →