Postmortem: The Retry Storm That Burned the Token Budget
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Every green test can hide a burning budget. This postmortem covers one week. An AI patch-review pipeline spent 4.2x its expected token allowance. The root cause was not a weak model. It was silent retries and growing context. The durable fix was cost observability, not cheaper prompts. Background T…
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- 2026-09-02 14:04 · DEV Community — AI
Postmortem: The Retry Storm That Burned the Token Budget