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The Free Budget Vanished in 90 Minutes: Debugging a Token Ledger That Charged Every Retry

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A demo chat page went out to three people last month, and all three used it exactly the way a keyboard user does: type, press Enter, Tab to the Stop button, press Enter again because nothing seemed to happen. Ninety minutes later the free allowance was empty, and a screen reader had announced the r…

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  1. 2026-10-27 12:26 · DEV Community — AI
    The Free Budget Vanished in 90 Minutes: Debugging a Token Ledger That Charged Every Retry

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