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FAILED is not UNKNOWN: the retry bug hiding in every AI agent

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An agent refunds a customer $500. Stripe processes it. The response never comes back — a proxy timeout, a dropped connection, a container that got OOM-killed mid-call. Your code sees an exception. Your retry decorator does what retry decorators do. Now the customer has $1,000. Nothing in that seque…

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  1. 2026-09-08 17:14 · DEV Community — AI
    FAILED is not UNKNOWN: the retry bug hiding in every AI agent

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