Your App Is Calling LLMs Directly. That’s Going to Hurt.

A practical guide to LLM Gateway: the control plane your AI stack is missing I want to tell you about a scenario I’ve seen play out than once. A backend team integrates an LLM. It goes well. Then a second team does the same. Then a third. Each team has their own API keys, their own retry logic, their own logging or rather, no logging at all. Then one day, your OpenAI bill doubles with no obvious explanation. A script went rogue at 2am. A prompt in production is silently leaking user data to the model. And when GPT-4 gets deprecated, you’ve got four services to update.