Shipping on a 10M-Token Budget

说明与用途

通过测试优先生成和令牌预算管理 AI 令牌使用，实现零成本开发。

问题

Managing AI token usage to keep monthly costs zero while developing with a free tier.

结果

Zero-dollar month achieved by disciplined test-first generation, token budgeting, and minimal manual edits.

工作流

• Write a failing test for the new feature
• Send the test to the model and request the smallest implementation that passes
• Record the prompt and completion token counts with token-budget.sh
• Check remaining allowance before each generation
• Verify the output by running the test and reviewing the diff
• Merge only if the test passes and the diff is clean
• Deploy by pushing to GitHub and hitting the health endpoint
• Repeat for each subsequent feature or refactor

证据

The monthly bill was zero dollars.

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Write the failing test before the model writes the code.

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Three gates stand before every generation.

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