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The Anti-Use Checklist: Six Signals That a Free Model Lane Is Wrong for a Workload

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A team wired a support triage agent to a free model lane on a Friday. By Tuesday the queue had 340 unparsed replies. Nobody had measured the lane before routing production traffic to it. The fix took an hour. The outage took three days of trust. This is a field guide for the opposite decision. It d…

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  1. 2026-10-19 08:07 · DEV Community — AI
    The Anti-Use Checklist: Six Signals That a Free Model Lane Is Wrong for a Workload

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