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Opinion: Your Free Tier Is a Staging Environment, Not a Fallback

Opinion: Your Free Tier Is a Staging Environment, Not a Fallback Most teams treat free model capacity as a rainy-day fund. I think that ordering is backwards. Your free tier should run first, on every prompt change. Production should be the second place a diff lands, never the first. That position…

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  1. 2026-11-08 19:48 · DEV Community — AI
    Opinion: Your Free Tier Is a Staging Environment, Not a Fallback

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