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Jordan Huang

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A 200 OK Is Not a Finished Answer: Classifying Model-Call Failures Before You Retry

A 200 OK Is Not a Finished Answer: Classifying Model-Call Failures Before You Retry

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Same Prompt, Different Answer: Five Reproducibility Myths in Free-Model Pipelines

Same Prompt, Different Answer: Five Reproducibility Myths in Free-Model Pipelines

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Your Free Server Forgot Your Files: Four Restart Myths and a Survival Check

Your Free Server Forgot Your Files: Four Restart Myths and a Survival Check

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Same URL, Different Machine: Four State Myths on a Free Server

Same URL, Different Machine: Four State Myths on a Free Server

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nohup Is Not a Checkpoint: An FAQ on Batches That Outlive Your SSH Session

nohup Is Not a Checkpoint: An FAQ on Batches That Outlive Your SSH Session

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Your Health Check Was Green. The Server Was Asleep.

Your Health Check Was Green. The Server Was Asleep.

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The Free Server Slept Overnight: Four State Claims Your App Can't Back Up

The Free Server Slept Overnight: Four State Claims Your App Can't Back Up

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A Bigger Context Window Is Not More Memory: Five Token Myths and a Budget Gate

A Bigger Context Window Is Not More Memory: Five Token Myths and a Budget Gate

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200 OK Proves Nothing About Tool Calls: A Free-Model Capability FAQ With a Probe

200 OK Proves Nothing About Tool Calls: A Free-Model Capability FAQ With a Probe

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It Passed CI. That Still Doesn't Make the Patch Safe.

It Passed CI. That Still Doesn't Make the Patch Safe.

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A Free Model Swap Is Not a Config Change: A Contract Probe You Can Run

A Free Model Swap Is Not a Config Change: A Contract Probe You Can Run

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Free Tokens Are Not Free Work: Five Quota Myths and a Ledger You Can Run

Free Tokens Are Not Free Work: Five Quota Myths and a Ledger You Can Run

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A 429 Is Not Always a Rate Limit: Four Free-Tier Failure Myths and a Classifier You Can Run

A 429 Is Not Always a Rate Limit: Four Free-Tier Failure Myths and a Classifier You Can Run

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UTC Is Not Agreement: Five Clock Myths That Break Deploys, Plus a Drift Probe

UTC Is Not Agreement: Five Clock Myths That Break Deploys, Plus a Drift Probe

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Temperature 0 Is Not a Reproducibility Setting: Five Model Myths and a Drift Probe

Temperature 0 Is Not a Reproducibility Setting: Five Model Myths and a Drift Probe

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Your Code Ran on the Free Box. That's Not an Environment Match.

Your Code Ran on the Free Box. That's Not an Environment Match.

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The Free Box Is Not Your Laptop: Five Portability Myths and a Probe You Can Diff

The Free Box Is Not Your Laptop: Five Portability Myths and a Probe You Can Diff

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Your Laptop Is Not the Server: An Environment Parity FAQ for Free-Tier Boxes

Your Laptop Is Not the Server: An Environment Parity FAQ for Free-Tier Boxes

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Your Free Server Forgets Everything: Six Deploy Myths and a Restart Drill

Your Free Server Forgets Everything: Six Deploy Myths and a Restart Drill

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Free Server, Free Model: Four Assumptions That Break Your First Deploy (And a Probe Script)

Free Server, Free Model: Four Assumptions That Break Your First Deploy (And a Probe Script)

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The Context Window Is a Budget, Not a Memory: An FAQ With a Truncation Ledger

The Context Window Is a Budget, Not a Memory: An FAQ With a Truncation Ledger

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Assume Nothing Persists: Five Free-Tier Myths and a Restart Drill You Can Re-Run

Assume Nothing Persists: Five Free-Tier Myths and a Restart Drill You Can Re-Run

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A Timeout Is Not a Slow Model: Five Latency Myths and a 40-Line Attribution Script

A Timeout Is Not a Slow Model: Five Latency Myths and a 40-Line Attribution Script

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Pin the Model, Log the Tokens: An FAQ for Free-Tier Agent Runs

Pin the Model, Log the Tokens: An FAQ for Free-Tier Agent Runs

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Your .env Is Not a Vault: Five Secret-Handling Myths and a Three-Place Scanner

Your .env Is Not a Vault: Five Secret-Handling Myths and a Three-Place Scanner

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Temperature 0 Is a Suggestion: Five LLM Determinism Myths and a Rerun Harness

Temperature 0 Is a Suggestion: Five LLM Determinism Myths and a Rerun Harness

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Your Nightly Job Ran Once, Right? Five Scheduling Myths and an Idempotency Ledger

Your Nightly Job Ran Once, Right? Five Scheduling Myths and an Idempotency Ledger

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Your Nightly Job Ran Once, Right? Five Scheduling Myths and an Idempotency Ledger

Your Nightly Job Ran Once, Right? Five Scheduling Myths and an Idempotency Ledger

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Your Model Alias Is Not a Version: A Drift Canary for Free Model Access

Your Model Alias Is Not a Version: A Drift Canary for Free Model Access

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FAQ: Streaming Tokens Is Not Faster Generation — Four Questions, One Stopwatch Test

FAQ: Streaming Tokens Is Not Faster Generation — Four Questions, One Stopwatch Test

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Five Free-Tier Myths That Break Your First Deploy (and a 60-Line Probe to Test Them)

Five Free-Tier Myths That Break Your First Deploy (and a 60-Line Probe to Test Them)

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Cold Starts, Lost Files, and Green Dots: Five Myths About Using a Free Server as Staging

Cold Starts, Lost Files, and Green Dots: Five Myths About Using a Free Server as Staging

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Stop Blaming the Model: A Failure-Taxonomy Probe for Agent Runs on Free Tiers

Stop Blaming the Model: A Failure-Taxonomy Probe for Agent Runs on Free Tiers

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Five Myths About Retrying an LLM Call, and the Fault-Injection Drill That Tests Them

Five Myths About Retrying an LLM Call, and the Fault-Injection Drill That Tests Them

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Your Free Tier Has No SLA, So Measure It: Five Availability Myths and a Two-Phase Probe

Your Free Tier Has No SLA, So Measure It: Five Availability Myths and a Two-Phase Probe

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Valid JSON Is Not Conformant JSON: Five Free-Model Myths and a Pass-Rate Probe

Valid JSON Is Not Conformant JSON: Five Free-Model Myths and a Pass-Rate Probe

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Four Myths About Free Model Endpoints, and the Four-Check Probe That Broke Them

Four Myths About Free Model Endpoints, and the Four-Check Probe That Broke Them

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Myth FAQ: A Free Token Allowance Is Not a Budget — Five Probes for Free AI Coding Tiers

Myth FAQ: A Free Token Allowance Is Not a Budget — Five Probes for Free AI Coding Tiers

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Myth FAQ: Free Model Access Moves the Bill, It Doesn't Delete It

Myth FAQ: Free Model Access Moves the Bill, It Doesn't Delete It

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Myth FAQ: An Eval Score Is Not a Measurement (and Six Reproducibility Traps)

Myth FAQ: An Eval Score Is Not a Measurement (and Six Reproducibility Traps)

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Myth FAQ: Your Lockfile Is Not a Reproduction

Myth FAQ: Your Lockfile Is Not a Reproduction

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Myth FAQ: A Prompt That Fits Is Not a Prompt That Was Read

Myth FAQ: A Prompt That Fits Is Not a Prompt That Was Read

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A 200 OK Is Not Evidence: Five Hosted-Model Myths and a Three-Gate Probe

A 200 OK Is Not Evidence: Five Hosted-Model Myths and a Three-Gate Probe

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FAQ: An Agent-Summarized PR Is Not a Changelog

FAQ: An Agent-Summarized PR Is Not a Changelog

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Myth FAQ: A Green Demo Is Not a Passing Test

Myth FAQ: A Green Demo Is Not a Passing Test

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Myth FAQ: What a Free Dev Box Forgets Between Sessions

Myth FAQ: What a Free Dev Box Forgets Between Sessions

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Myth FAQ: Retry Is Not Free — Five Duplicate-Work Traps

Myth FAQ: Retry Is Not Free — Five Duplicate-Work Traps

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Myth FAQ: Your Laptop Passed, So Why Did the Free Server Fail?

Myth FAQ: Your Laptop Passed, So Why Did the Free Server Fail?

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Myth FAQ: Your Free Dev Box Is Not a Staging Environment

Myth FAQ: Your Free Dev Box Is Not a Staging Environment

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Myth FAQ: Five Things a Free Token Grant Does Not Prove

Myth FAQ: Five Things a Free Token Grant Does Not Prove

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Temperature Zero Is Not a Reproducibility Guarantee: Five Agent Myths, Tested

Temperature Zero Is Not a Reproducibility Guarantee: Five Agent Myths, Tested

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FAQ: A Free Model Lease Is Not a Server Lease

FAQ: A Free Model Lease Is Not a Server Lease

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Myth FAQ: Three Papers a Green Badge Cannot Sign

Myth FAQ: Three Papers a Green Badge Cannot Sign

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FAQ: Which Myths Die When the Job Id Changes?

FAQ: Which Myths Die When the Job Id Changes?

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Myth FAQ: A Clone Does Not Register the Runner

Myth FAQ: A Clone Does Not Register the Runner

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FAQ: A Free Shell Cannot Borrow Your Runner Tag

FAQ: A Free Shell Cannot Borrow Your Runner Tag

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FAQ: A Green Free Shell Is Not a Retry Rule

FAQ: A Green Free Shell Is Not a Retry Rule

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FAQ: Which Group Facts Never Ride Along

FAQ: Which Group Facts Never Ride Along

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Where Is the Job Behind That Green Prompt?

Where Is the Job Behind That Green Prompt?

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Myth FAQ: What My Clean Draft Run Still Hides

Myth FAQ: What My Clean Draft Run Still Hides

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