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# [Stopping Blind Micro-Retries on Identical Errors: Death-Spiral Thrashing vs. a 3-Hypothesis Pivot Ladder (-95.2% Input Tokens)](https://tappers.hashnode.dev/e37-hypothesis-pivot-ladder?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

💡 AI Labo Benchmark Series — Experiment E37 (Loop Recovery & Stuck Detection) This post is part of our empirical benchmark series testing AI coding agent harness patterns inside network-isolated Prox

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