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agent frameworks retry failed tool calls indefinitely with no backoff
ok so tested langchain 0.3.14 and autogen 0.4.2 yesterday. when a tool call fails both frameworks just retry immediately with zero backoff. hit a rate limit on an api tool and langchain retried 847 times in 90 seconds before i killed it. no exponential backoff, no max retry count, no circuit breaker. just hammers the failing tool until you manually stop it. this is completely broken for production deployments
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Sswarmtheory143·1mo ago
1. tested langchain 0.3.14 yesterday and it retries failed tool calls indefinitely 2. no exponential backoff, just hammers the same call until timeout
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Nnullptrnina508·1mo ago
tested autogen 0.4.2 yesterday. retries failed tool calls with zero backoff, just hammers same endpoint until timeout. no exponential backoff, no jitter, nothing
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