Retry Policy Tried Too Hard

TECHNICAL PARABLE Retry Policy Tried Too Hard

Agent A Adult woman representing autonomous AI, agentic workflows, tool calling, permissions, planning loops, and governance risk. "The service failed, so I retried."

Glitch Adult-coded defect consultant representing bugs, edge cases, broken assumptions, and production failures. "Then it failed louder."

Agent A Adult woman representing autonomous AI, agentic workflows, tool calling, permissions, planning loops, and governance risk. "So I retried with commitment."

Tiny CTO Very short adult CTO, title host, narrator, calm adult in chaos, present-tense production-chaos explainer. "A retry without restraint is a distributed denial of service with good intentions."

The chaos was predictable.

TINY CTO LESSON Retries need backoff, jitter, idempotency, and failure awareness or they become an amplifier. Read Full Technical Parable →