A Pairing Hour on Token Budgets: Three Dead Ends Before We Kept the Usage Ledger
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Free tiers invite a specific kind of optimism: the first hundred calls cost nothing, so nobody measures them. Then a test suite gets pointed at the endpoint, the allowance disappears, and the team cannot say which calls ate it. The pairing hour described below is about closing that gap before it op…
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- 2026-10-18 06:55 · DEV Community — AI
A Pairing Hour on Token Budgets: Three Dead Ends Before We Kept the Usage Ledger