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Retry logic works for infrastructure failures. Learn why AI agents need circuit breakers to stop costly reasoning loops before they escalate.
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Retry logic is built for infrastructure failures — things that resolve on their own. An agent reasoning toward the wrong answer doesn't have a transient problem. It retries into the same wrong answer faster, with increasing confidence. The fix isn't smarter backoff. It's a trip condition in the orchestration layer that catches circling reasoning before it compounds.