My AI Agent Hit a Rate Limit at Midnight and Retried 11,000 Times. My "Smart" Retry Logic Was the Dumbest Code I've Shipped.
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The email from my API provider was polite, which somehow made it worse. "We've detected unusual traffic from your account and applied a temporary restriction while we review." I'd been asleep. My agent hadn't. Sometime after midnight, one downstream API started returning 429s, and the retry logic I…
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My AI Agent Hit a Rate Limit at Midnight and Retried 11,000 Times. My "Smart" Retry Logic Was the Dumbest Code I've Shipped.
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