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5 Claude API Errors That Cost Me Money (And How I Trapped Them)
Retry storms turned 1 timeout into 340 duplicate calls billed in 90 seconds
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Reconstruct the timeline from prod logs before touching code Bisect by deploy to find the exact commit that broke Add targeted instrumentation, test one hypothesis at a time Verify the fix in the real environment, not localhost A checkout endpoint...
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Retry storms turned 1 timeout into 340 duplicate calls billed in 90 seconds