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Ship an AI Feature Today With a Four-Rung Degradation Ladder

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The cheapest way for a solo founder to ship an AI feature is to assume the model will be slow, throttled, or unaffordable before the week ends — and to encode that assumption in code rather than in a spreadsheet. The artifact below is a four-rung degradation ladder backed by a daily token ledger th…

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  1. 2026-10-20 10:13 · DEV Community — AI
    Ship an AI Feature Today With a Four-Rung Degradation Ladder

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