Free Tiers Don't Fail Loudly. Your Harness Should.
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Cheap model access almost never loses on accuracy. It loses on the tail — the 3% of calls that time out, the one input where the JSON slips, the retry storm that only appears when you fire four requests at once. So before I trust any free endpoint with real work, I don't write a prompt first. I wri…
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- 2026-10-15 11:24 · DEV Community — AI
Free Tiers Don't Fail Loudly. Your Harness Should.