Myth FAQ: Retry Is Not Free — Five Duplicate-Work Traps
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Myth FAQ: Retry Is Not Free — Five Duplicate-Work Traps A worker of mine died mid-task at 2am. The retry ran clean. The customer still got two invoices. Nothing in the logs looked broken. Both attempts returned HTTP 200. So which attempt actually did the work? This FAQ lists five claims I keep hear…
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- 2026-10-15 22:05 · DEV Community — AI
Myth FAQ: Retry Is Not Free — Five Duplicate-Work Traps