Retries Are Not Free: Measuring Duplicate Side Effects in an Agent Loop
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Retries Are Not Free: Measuring Duplicate Side Effects in an Agent Loop Your agent calls a tool. The call times out. Your loop retries it. Now you have two writes and one intent. Which one was the bug? Neither. The bug is the missing dedup decision. I keep seeing the same four claims about retries…
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- 2026-09-14 23:33 · DEV Community — AI
Retries Are Not Free: Measuring Duplicate Side Effects in an Agent Loop