Knife Juggling: How We’re Building a New Free AI Normal

cto.new is launching a free task orchestration agent that wraps their existing coding agent (which achieves a 60% PR merge rate at ~$2 per task) to democratize AI-powered software development across entire engineering workflows. To sustainably offer free access while preventing abuse, they've implemented a "trust but verify" system using three dynamic levers—dollar cost tracking, rate limit ceilings, and time windows—that silently reward legitimate usage patterns through server-side heuristics rather than openly punishing users.

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