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48-Hour Field Notes: A Free Tier Is a Budget, Not a Benchmark

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At 01:40 on a Tuesday, a build went red on a branch nobody had touched in nine days. I pasted the tail of the log into a chat box, asked what broke, and got a confident answer that pointed at line 214. The log had 187 lines. That was not a model failure so much as a missing instrument: I had no met…

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    48-Hour Field Notes: A Free Tier Is a Budget, Not a Benchmark

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