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A Free Model Swap Is Not a Config Change: A Contract Probe You Can Run

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You have seen this comment in a pull request. "Just point the base URL at the free model. Same API, right?" It sounds reasonable. Most providers speak a chat-completions dialect now. So what could actually break? More than you think. The request shape is shared. The response contract is not. And yo…

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  1. 2026-10-26 15:08 · DEV Community — AI
    A Free Model Swap Is Not a Config Change: A Contract Probe You Can Run

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