Five automation lanes went down on the same morning. Every log said the same thing: "Failed, so I ran...
Five automation lanes went down on the same morning. Every log said the same thing: "Failed, so I ran it again." Then again. Then again. Sixty-three minutes after the first failure, all I had was the exact same failure — three more times over.
Why this design works
When I first started writing scripts, I thought retries looked like this:
for attempt in range(3):
try:
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Why agent failures become expensive once the runtime keeps retrying without proving anything changed.
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