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A Token Ledger Decides Which Model Answers

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The failure is boring and repeatable. A script fans out one request per changed file, the longest file drags the whole prompt past what the cheap endpoint will accept, the retry loop fires anyway, and a code review turns into a spend event. Nobody chose that. It fell out of a for loop that never as…

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  1. 2026-10-18 07:04 · DEV Community — AI
    A Token Ledger Decides Which Model Answers

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