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The provider that failed was the feature: building a model-agnostic AI arbiter (Kimi K2 · Qwen · EIP-712)

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A real failure story from building EscrowLens, a passkey-native escrow protocol on Monad for the Metropolis hackathon — and why an AI provider hitting its quota ceiling mid-verification was the best thing that happened to the architecture. Live app: https://escrowlens.vercel.app · Code (MIT): https…

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  1. 2026-10-02 11:29 · DEV Community — AI
    The provider that failed was the feature: building a model-agnostic AI arbiter (Kimi K2 · Qwen · EIP-712)

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