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SirBrenton

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    Comment #48070297

    Durable workflows that survive crashes are the right foundation. The failure mode we see most: the loop survives the crash but retries into an active rate-limit window — WAIT signa…

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    Thanks Rahmi — saw EZThrottle a while back, been thinking about how the layers relate. Your coordinated retry layer assumes the failure is classified correctly upstream — that’s th…

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    Comment #47456953

    If you want to try it on your own code: npx pitstop-check ./src — no config, no install. Works on any TS/JS repo. Happy to answer questions about the pattern or false positives.

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    Show HN: Pitstop-check – finds the retry bug that turns 429s into request storms

    I kept running into the same bug in AI agent codebases: retry logic that ignores Retry-After under concurrency. Looks fine at first. Under load it turns rate limits into request st…

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