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The 401 Retry Bug: Auditing an Agent-Written Backoff Loop With a Fake Server

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At 9:04 a.m. a reviewer opens a pull request titled "add exponential backoff". The diff is 62 lines long. CI is green. The code reads like a textbook. It also retries a 401 six times. Along the way it sleeps about 63 seconds. That pattern is common in agent-generated PRs. The happy path is correct.…

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  1. 2026-10-26 11:27 · DEV Community — AI
    The 401 Retry Bug: Auditing an Agent-Written Backoff Loop With a Fake Server

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