If You Don't Run Your Own LLM Proxy, You're Flying Blind (Here's a 10-Minute Setup)

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<p>A post titled <em>"If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how the f</em>** do you even know what's going on?"* is sitting on the Hacker News front page right now with 160+ points and a 100-comment argument underneath it. The title is rude. The point is correct.</p> <p>Here's the version with the profanity filed off.</p> <h2> The problem: your provider's dashboard is a toy </h2> <p>You're calling Claude, GPT, Gemini, or DeepSeek from your editor, your agents, a few scripts, and maybe production. Every one of those has its own key, its own client, its own failure mode.</p> <p>And the "analytics

Problem

<p>A post titled <em>"If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how the f</em>** do you even know what's going on?"* is sitting on the Hacker News front page right now with 160+ points and a 100-comment argument underneath it. The title is rude. The point is correct.</p> <p>Here's the version with the profanity filed off.</p> <h2> The problem: your provider's dashboard is a toy </h2> <p>You're calling Claude, GPT, Gemini, or DeepSeek from your editor, your agents, a few scripts, and maybe production. Every one of those has its own key, its own client, its own failure mode.</p> <p>And the "analytics

Outcome

<p>A post titled <em>"If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how the f</em>** do you even know what's going on?"* is sitting on the Hacker News front page right now with 160+ points and a 100-comment argument underneath it. The title is rude. The point is correct.</p> <p>Here's the version with the profanity filed off.</p> <h2> The problem: your provider's dashboard is a toy </h2> <p>You're calling Claude, GPT, Gemini, or DeepSeek from your editor, your agents, a few scripts, and maybe production. Every one of those has its own key, its own client, its own failure mode.</p> <p>And the "analytics

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If You Don't Run Your Own LLM Proxy, You're Flying Blind (Here's a 10-Minute Setup)

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