My AI bill wasn’t exploding from tokens — it was exploding because the same failed step ran 3 times
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I found an ugly failure mode in an agent workflow recently: one timeout turned into multiple LLM executions because three different layers all thought they were being helpful. Zapier retried the webhook my worker retried the job the OpenAI-compatible SDK retried the model call The result was not “s…
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- 2026-09-24 22:10 · DEV Community — AI
My AI bill wasn’t exploding from tokens — it was exploding because the same failed step ran 3 times