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I Am 12. My Phone Costs $150. Groq Tried to Kill My AI. Here Is How I Survived It.

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I am 12 years old. My development machine is a POCO C55 that cost $150. I live in Tamil Nadu, India. Yesterday, my AI mentor, KODA, stopped working. Not because I wrote bad code. But because Groq retired the model I was using. llama-3.3-70b-versatile no longer exists. Every request returned a silen…

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  1. 2026-09-30 11:07 · DEV Community — AI
    I Am 12. My Phone Costs $150. Groq Tried to Kill My AI. Here Is How I Survived It.

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