Towards Data Science
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Emmimal P Alexander
Your ReAct Agent Is Wasting 90% of Its Retries — Here’s How to Stop It
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Most ReAct-style agents are silently wasting their retry budget on errors that can never succeed.
In a 200-task benchmark, 90.8% of retries were spent on hallucinated tool calls — not model mistakes, but architectural flaws.
This article shows why prompt tuning won’t fix it, and the three structu...
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