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A Free Model Is Not a Pure Function: 200 Calls, 48 Hours, One Drifting Output

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I once assumed that feeding the same prompt to the same model would produce the same output. That assumption is comfortable, and it is also wrong for most free-tier APIs. When you put a free model inside an automated pipeline, you inherit its non-determinism whether you want it or not. So I set up…

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  1. 2026-09-01 01:54 · DEV Community — AI
    A Free Model Is Not a Pure Function: 200 Calls, 48 Hours, One Drifting Output

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