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

<p>For three mornings in a row, my audit log printed the same line: <code>published today: 0 / target: 3</code>. Nothing crashed. The scripts ran, exited, and produced nothing.

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<h1> My Exit Rule Said '2 Periods' — My Code Was Counting Something Else Entirely </h1> <p>My funding-rate bot has an exit rule that reads like plain English:<br /> </p> <div

<p>Four agents entered an infinite loop in November 2025. They ran for 11 days. The bill was $47,000. Nobody noticed until it was over.</p> <p>The team was running a market