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4 Days, 3 Wasted Calls Per Run: My Retry Loop Mistook a Quota-Limit Message for a 'Too Short' Article

Community description: Last time I wrote about using a probe to decide which jobs to stop first when the quota runs dry....

Dev.to | Sep 21, 2026 | Lily

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From September 13 to 16, every run burned 3 claude -p calls to produce nothing. For each product it calls claude -p up to 3 passes to produce the body. For 4 days (9/13–9/16), note2-daily-stock. sh misdiagnosed the limit-reached message as "not enough characters" and burned all 3 pointless claude -p calls during the limit window During the same 4 days, maker-daily-stock. sh also failed 7 times in a row on the same topic — the limit hit multiple pipelines simultaneously.

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