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My Google AI API 500 errors stopped being scary when I stopped retrying the whole workflow

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I knew something was wrong when one flaky Gemini call turned into: 3 duplicate HubSpot updates 1 duplicate Jira issue 4 Slack messages and a very annoyed ops channel At first it looked like a normal "Google AI API is throwing random 500s" problem. It wasn’t. The real bug was that we were retrying t…

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  1. 2026-09-28 22:10 · DEV Community — AI
    My Google AI API 500 errors stopped being scary when I stopped retrying the whole workflow

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