A small experiment: building a zero-cost AI debate arena (BYOK)

Описание и применение

Создана простая веб-арена для дебатов между ИИ-моделями без серверных затрат, где пользователи вводят собственные ключи API.

Задача

Standard AI chat interfaces are overly polite and uninteresting, lacking engaging debate between models.

Результат

The author successfully built a zero-cost, client-side AI debate arena that allows users to plug in their own API keys and witness models debating without server or token costs.

Рабочий процесс

• 1. Set up a simple web page using Tailwind CSS for styling.
• 2. Deploy the page on Vercel for free hosting.
• 3. Implement a Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) architecture so users can input their own API keys for Gemini, Groq, or other models.
• 4. Configure the client-side logic to send prompts to both models and display their responses in real time.
• 5. Run the arena and observe the models debating without server or token expenses.

Доказательства

So, I built a lightweight web arena using Tailwind, Vercel, and a BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) architecture so users plug in their own API keys (Gemini, Groq, etc.) and it doesn’t cost me a dime in server or token bills every time the models start bickering.

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