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The Cold-Start Budget Packet: A Take-Home Where the Free Server Is Allowed to Vanish

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A take-home that never simulates a host restart measures almost nothing about cost discipline. The packet below asks one question: after the machine disappears mid-run, does the candidate's harness still know what it spent, and does it refuse to spend more than it can account for? Everything else i…

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  1. 2026-10-17 06:26 · DEV Community — AI
    The Cold-Start Budget Packet: A Take-Home Where the Free Server Is Allowed to Vanish

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