Why your coding agent's timeout resets every time it retries
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You start three coding agents on a task before lunch and wrap each one in timeout 1800 . Thirty minutes should be plenty. When you come back, one of them is still going: it failed its tests, the wrapper retried, the retry ran the checks again, and every new process got its own fresh 30 minutes. Not…
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- 2026-10-29 01:06 · DEV Community — AI
Why your coding agent's timeout resets every time it retries