Opus retried every session 20.6 million times during a memory leak hunt
johnlindquist · x · 2026-10-28
Developer John Lindquist shared a hilarious agentic failure: while hunting a memory leak, Opus responded "Sorry, it retried every session 20.6 million times."
His takeaway: the models are amazing, but sometimes they're just not — a textbook runaway retry loop from a coding agent.
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