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Subject Ai code reviewLevel Mid–Senior~16 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

An agent wrote this Python retry helper for flaky HTTP calls and it looks clean and reasonable. Two things are wrong — one is a hallucinated/misused API, the other is a logic bug that defeats the purpose of the retry. Identify both, explain what each does at runtime, and give the fix.

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import requests, time def get_with_retry(url, retries=3, backoff=0.5):    for attempt in range(retries):        try:            resp = requests.get(url, timeout=5)            resp.raise_for_error()        # raise on 4xx/5xx            return resp.json()        except requests.HTTPError:            time.sleep(backoff * attempt)  # exponential backoff            continue    return None
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