Don't Ship Retries In the Bugfix Patch
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Consider this reconstructed Friday timeout incident from review. A payment client timed out during afternoon traffic. An agent patch wrapped the capture call in retries. Tests turned green before the standup even ended. Production did not receive a genuine timeout fix. It received a much longer out…
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- 2026-09-13 20:00 · DEV Community — AI
Don't Ship Retries In the Bugfix Patch