A single prompt to audit and fix missing timeouts and retry logic across your services
DanielLockyer · x · 2026-11-05
Daniel Lockyer shared his "stabilitymaxxing" prompt: have the AI find every outbound call (HTTP, DB, queues, LLM APIs) with no timeout or retries without backoff, then add sane timeouts and capped exponential retries with jitter, and verify pool sizes match concurrency. A copy-paste ready audit for service reliability.
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