AI Models Prefer Hand-Coding Retry Logic Over Using Existing Libraries
rakyll · x · 2026-08-14
Google engineer rakyll observes that LLMs naturally tend to write their own retry logic and exponential backoff code from scratch, but become reluctant or upset when explicitly asked to use an existing library.
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