My Agent Almost Retried a Request That Was Never Going to Succeed
python
dev.to
A couple weeks ago a scheduled job in this repo failed at the very first step. It's a small automation that publishes to DEV.to on a timer, and step one is just a quota check: GET https://dev.to/api/articles/me/published. That call never landed. The agent proxy in the sandbox answered every CONNECT to dev.to:443 with a flat 403. My first instinct, and the instinct baked into most retry logic I've written, was: transient failure, back off, try again. That's the correct move for a huge class of H