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Retry patterns: when you should give up (and why most code doesn't)

Originally published on Loop & Retry — field notes on building LLM agents that survive production. The retry-budget post answered the HOW: a shared bucket that caps retries as a fraction of…

  • Fail immediately for user-facing operations to avoid timeouts.
  • Cost of one retry is response time; cost of failing is user abandonment and revenue loss.
  • Cascade failures can be prevented with shared retry budgets and circuit breakers.

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