Applied AI: RAG

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of October 16, 2026. You ask the company's new AI assistant a simple question: what is the retry policy for the payments API? It answers instantly. Three retries, exponential backoff starting at one second, idempotency keys on every request. It sounds exactly right. It is also invented. Your payments API retries twice, with a fixed 500 millisecond delay, and the reasoning lives in… Read More