Unknown Is Not Failure. It Is a Third State, and Blind Retries Are How Agents Double-Charge You
TL;DR: Every agent framework teaches you two outcomes: success and failure. Production taught me a third, and it is the expensive one. Unknown: the request left, the process died, and nobody knows whether the thing happened. Treat unknown like failure and retry, and you double-post, double-email, a…
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- 2026-11-01 14:49 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Unknown Is Not Failure. It Is a Third State, and Blind Retries Are How Agents Double-Charge You