[physicles]

I think you’ve nailed it: which fix is better depends on how bulletproof the solution needs to be. If a few people (not paying customers) call the api a few times a week and everyone’s on good WiFi or fiber, it’s probably fine. If you start hearing complaints from your users about failed requests, probably time to switch to polling.

I wonder if this is something you could get Claude to think about by adding some rules about your business context, how it should always prefer the simplest solution no matter what.