The Retry That Wasn't the Fix
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Every engineer knows this feeling: a request fails, you retry it, it works, and you tell yourself you'll come back to figure out why later. Later rarely comes. The retry quietly becomes the fix, and the real cause gets buried under a try/except block nobody reads again. I almost did exactly that. T…
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- 2026-09-26 04:04 · DEV Community — AI
The Retry That Wasn't the Fix