Your retry loop is your most expensive feature
A team I worked with tracked cost per task down to the token. They capped context. They set a budget alert. And then they added retries: 3 to the model client and never put it in the budget. That retry path only fires when the model is slow or down — i.e. at peak load. And every retry replays the e…
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- 2026-10-22 06:16 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Your retry loop is your most expensive feature