When a Free Model Must Not Classify Retryability
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On a Monday deploy, a refund agent started auto-retrying ledger writes. Each 503 response was labeled retryable by a helper model. The queue doubled while the ledger stayed dark. Customers then saw duplicate authorization holds by noon. The model had treated unavailability as safe to replay. Retrya…
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- 2026-09-23 16:16 · DEV Community — AI
When a Free Model Must Not Classify Retryability