Opinion: Free AI Tokens Are Wasted in a Chat Window — Spend Them on a Server You Control
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The pattern shows up every quarter: a team demos a voice feature that answers instantly on conference-room Wi-Fi. Two days later, the same build spins for forty seconds in a parking garage while its retry queue re-sends the same prompt. The model access was free, so the demo cost nothing at all — a…
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- 2026-08-24 18:55 · DEV Community — AI
Opinion: Free AI Tokens Are Wasted in a Chat Window — Spend Them on a Server You Control