I Blamed the Rate Limit for 48 Hours. The Retry Storm Was Coming From Inside My Code.
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I blamed the rate limit first because blaming the platform is the comfortable move. For 48 hours I probed a free model endpoint from a free server, and only when the 429s stopped did I count my own retries. The storm was coming from inside my code, and that realization changed how I review retry lo…
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- 2026-08-28 08:31 · DEV Community — AI
I Blamed the Rate Limit for 48 Hours. The Retry Storm Was Coming From Inside My Code.