The State Changers had a productive meeting focusing on the creation of a retry loop when interacting with APIs such as OpenAI, and how to ensure that returned data is reliable. The retry loop’s purpose is to continue attempts at API calls until a successful response has been received. Suggestions were given to improve efficiency, such as dynamically setting the sleep duration within the loop, and multiplying it by the index to get a staggered retry system. Another critical theme discussed was the importance of having a plan for handling unsuccessful requests, even after several attempts. These contingency plans are necessary even though with retries, failure is statistically reduced significantly. Overall, the discussed retry loop is a beneficial method, especially when working with services such as OpenAI, where data inversion may not always be perfect.
(Source: Office Hours 1/26 )
