48-Hour Field Notes: I Built a Token Ledger Before Trusting Any Free Tier
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Everyone on my timeline spent the week arguing about AI fatigue, and I get it. The part that wears me out isn't the models — it's that almost nobody hands you a way to check the numbers yourself. So I gave myself 48 hours to answer one boring question: if a tool advertises free model access, what w…
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48-Hour Field Notes: I Built a Token Ledger Before Trusting Any Free Tier