My retry budget taught me that 'just try again' is a spending decision, not a strategy
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When I started exposing APIs that agents call autonomously, I kept seeing the same failure pattern: a downstream hiccup and the calling agent would fire the same request again immediately, then again, then again — a tight retry loop that turned a 30-second blip into a small denial-of-service agains…
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- 2026-10-30 03:05 · DEV Community — AI
My retry budget taught me that 'just try again' is a spending decision, not a strategy