Your Retry Loop Is a Token Incinerator: A Cascade Router for Mixed-Tier Endpoints
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When a free endpoint returns 429, most agents do the most expensive thing possible: retry. Retrying looks harmless. A 200-millisecond request becomes a 2-second wait, then another attempt. But under peak load, that loop becomes a 30-second stall while your agent clicks refresh on an empty response.…
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- 2026-08-23 18:19 · DEV Community — AI
Your Retry Loop Is a Token Incinerator: A Cascade Router for Mixed-Tier Endpoints