When Free Inference Should Not Own the Retry Loop
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A retry loop that consults free inference before it fires again is not resilience. It is a second outage, delayed by a model call that can stall, drift, or disagree with itself. Status codes, idempotency keys, and a hard budget already decide whether work is safe to repeat. A model does not improve…
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- 2026-09-13 20:45 · DEV Community — AI
When Free Inference Should Not Own the Retry Loop