Case Study: I Pinned 18 Prompts to a Free Model Endpoint. Two Broke Without a Code Change.
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Free model endpoints drift. Your code can stay identical for a week and the answers still change. I built a 120-line C++ harness that pins prompts to expected output patterns; in six days it caught two silent regressions that the application itself would have tolerated. This is the story of that ha…
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- 2026-08-24 21:00 · DEV Community — AI
Case Study: I Pinned 18 Prompts to a Free Model Endpoint. Two Broke Without a Code Change.