I signed up for a free-tier LLM API, hit a credit-card prompt before I'd made a single call, and assumed it meant I was about to get billed. I was wrong about that one. I was not wrong that the SDK code I wrote next would break twice before I got a real response back.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/nomurasan/3-assumptions-that-broke-before-i-got-gpt-oss-120b-working-through-the-anthropic-sdk-m55)