So the reality is that rate limits are currently being applied randomly. I have just as good a chance of being rate limited on my first request as my 100th request.
I was going to do something smart in my retry logic but I figured if they’re ignoring my remaining request limits why should I worry about being smart? I added a simple exponential retry policy and I haven’t had a 429 in 2 days.
For reference my policy is 3 tries with a 2 second delay after the first try and then a 5 second delay after the second. As I said, all my 429s have gone away