The retry trap A free model CI job fails on a timeout. You click retry. The whole...
The retry trap
A free model CI job fails on a timeout.
You click retry.
The whole pipeline starts over: checkout, build, dependencies, model call.
That is the trap.
Your request just failed. What does your client do next? Most retry logic panics. It fires the same...
A merge request changes one README line. The pipeline still calls a model. It costs tokens. It adds...
Consider a typical coding-agent run. The model fixes an import error, the test suite passes, and the...
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07:42. The GitLab job fails at risk not found. I open the raw log. The model returned { "output":...
