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A Token Ledger That Refuses Work: Keeping a Solo AI Feature at Zero Cost

A zero-cost AI feature is not a feature that happens to cost nothing. It is a feature whose code refuses to run once the day's allowance is gone. Repeat traffic rarely breaks a free tier; one long prompt inside a retry loop does. The artifact below is a ~120-line ledger, standard library only, that…

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  1. 2026-11-08 20:04 · DEV Community — AI
    A Token Ledger That Refuses Work: Keeping a Solo AI Feature at Zero Cost

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