Weekend Build Log: An Idempotent Batch Worker for a Free-Model Side Project
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A weekend batch job rarely fails because the model is bad. It fails because a retry re-sends work that already succeeded, and the second pass quietly doubles your cost, your labels, or both. This build log is about the boring machinery around one model call: an idempotency key, a bounded worker poo…
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- 2026-10-18 07:25 · DEV Community — AI
Weekend Build Log: An Idempotent Batch Worker for a Free-Model Side Project