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A Free Tier Is a Contract Test, Not a Backend

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Last Tuesday a teammate opened a pull request that called a model straight from a route handler, and on his laptop it worked for two days without a hiccup. On staging it died at 03:14 with a 500 that was hiding a 429 inside three layers of try/catch, and nobody could tell which layer had decided to…

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  1. 2026-10-16 04:41 · DEV Community — AI
    A Free Tier Is a Contract Test, Not a Backend

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