The Agent Added Backoff but Ignored Retry-After, and Every Client Retried Together
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The task read simple: make the outbound call survive a temporary failure. The agent returned a retry wrapper with exponential backoff: wait 1s, 2s, 4s, cap at three attempts. The test fixture returned 500 on the first call and 200 on the third, the suite went green, and the change merged. Under rea…
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- 2026-11-05 16:26 · DEV Community — AI
The Agent Added Backoff but Ignored Retry-After, and Every Client Retried Together