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📖What it means
Work repeating without progressing. The dangerous kind is invisible — each pass looks like activity, so a loop can burn a whole budget while every individual step reports success.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Retry
A retry is deliberate and bounded; a loop has lost its bound.
Not: Stall
A loop is busy and going nowhere; a stall has stopped entirely.
🗣️Also called
cyclespinrepeat