This is great and all but won't scale (as in, enterprise scale). I understand the knee-jerk reaction but at this point it misses the point about what is trying to be achieved here
Why would you skip unit tests? Especially in the AI age. You can quickly verify your behavior. Also, by not writing them you're also missing out on opportunities to modularize your code.
Obviously, this assumes you write enterprise grade code. YMMV
I second this, retry mechanisms can cause retry storms in vast enough, distributed systems. In Amazon code bases I found the same adaptive retry strategy after a Christmas where once we played whack-a-mole for a service to get back up as its clients kept retrying.
Tangentially related: on each trip I make, I try my best to get a run in on Strava during which I explore a city or area with one or two pictures I make _during_ the run.
They're my favorite memories. NY's Central Park, London's Hyde Park, Norway's fjords, Barcelona's beaches... The best part is that these feel like very tangible memories and take zero physical space to store!