dev.to/cyclopt_dimitrisk/your-agents-retry-bug-isnt-an-ai-problem-its-a-distributed-systems-problem-with-an-llm-on-top-1i6k Your agent's retry bug isn't an AI problem. It's a distributed-systems problem with an LLM on top.
Agent retry failures in production are distributed-systems problems, not model-reasoning problems. A timeout doesn't prove an action failed, so state-changing calls need application-owned idempotency keys, durable intent records, an explicit "unknown" state, and reconciliation instead of blind retries.
— via dev.to, Dimitris Kyrkos
