Build Log: A Token Budget Guard That Trips Before the Overspend
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You ship a summarize button on a Saturday afternoon. It works on the first try. By Wednesday the usage bill is larger than the project will ever earn. That gap is the real risk in AI side projects. The model call is a five-line function. The spend is unbounded unless you bound it. So this build has…
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- 2026-10-08 09:19 · DEV Community — AI
Build Log: A Token Budget Guard That Trips Before the Overspend