Split Placement: Deciding Which Agent Steps Run Locally, on a Free Server, or on a Free Model Endpoint

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02:10, nineteen steps done, thirty-one to go Picture a nightly triage job. It has sixty steps, it starts at 02:00, and at 02:10 it has finished nineteen of them. Step twenty needs to pull text out of a PDF, and the function that calls the model endpoint has just started returning 429 on every third…

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1. 2026-10-16 05:08 · DEV Community — AI
   Split Placement: Deciding Which Agent Steps Run Locally, on a Free Server, or on a Free Model Endpoint