Treat Free Tier Like a Hypothesis, Not a Feature
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The pattern is familiar by now: a team adopts a free AI coding tier, the assistant passes a cheerful demo task, and the first real batch run dies at minute forty with no error message anywhere in the logs. The server was evicted, the model budget was already half consumed, and the failure gets file…
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- 2026-08-30 11:05 · DEV Community — AI
Treat Free Tier Like a Hypothesis, Not a Feature