The Retry Loop That Turned a 429 Into an Outage
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The outage that woke me at 2 AM was not caused by a bad model or an overloaded server. It was caused by a retry loop that treated a token-limit rejection as a transient network error. The same pipeline had passed every eval we ran, which made the failure harder to diagnose rather than easier. We tr…
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- 2026-08-24 20:04 · DEV Community — AI
The Retry Loop That Turned a 429 Into an Outage