"Why Blind Retries Are Burning Your AI Budget"

Why Blind Retries Are Burning Your AI Budget Every AI app does the same thing when an API fails: retry. And retry. And retry. It feels right — the error says "503 Service Unavailable", so obviously the service will come back if we just try again, right? Wrong. And it's costing you real money. The Real Cost of Blind Retries Let's do the math on a typical production AI app making 100K API calls/day: Average failure rate : ~3-5% across major providers (based on public status pages) Blind retry succ