I Ran Out of AI API Credits Mid-Build. Swapping Providers Took 20 Minutes.
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It happened on a Tuesday night, two weeks into building the AI service for Materia AI — a bilingual menu-description generator I was building off real problems I'd seen as a waiter. I was testing description generation for the tenth item in a row when the request just... died. Not a timeout. Not a…
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- 2026-09-25 17:10 · DEV Community — AI
I Ran Out of AI API Credits Mid-Build. Swapping Providers Took 20 Minutes.