AI Agent Rate Limits: A 10,000-Task Test of Request and Token Budgets
A 429 is easy to misread. It looks like a request-level failure, so the usual patch is a retry with backoff. That helps a single caller. It does not solve a queue of agents that share request limits,
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Andrew
Avery, dual-budget's 3145s p95 is the 429 renamed as queue time. Without a terminal wait the 10k run never reports a miss.