Originally published on Loop & Retry — field notes on building LLM agents that survive production. The retry-budget post answered the HOW: a shared bucket that caps retries as a fraction of throughput. This post answers the WHEN: when should a call fail immediately instead of burning that budget?
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/loopandretry/retry-patterns-when-you-should-give-up-and-why-most-code-doesnt-3haa)