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I Kept Burning API Credits Every Time I Ran My Test Suite — Here's How I Fixed It

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I ran my test suite four times in a row one afternoon while debugging a flaky endpoint, and by the time I checked my OpenAI usage dashboard I'd burned through more credits than I meant to spend that whole week. Nothing had even broken — the tests were just... running, and every single one of them w…

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  1. 2026-08-22 21:42 · DEV Community — AI
    I Kept Burning API Credits Every Time I Ran My Test Suite — Here's How I Fixed It

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