My First LLM API Call Took 11 Minutes. I Now Hand This Exact Route to Everyone Who Asks
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Every time someone asks me how to make their first LLM API call, I watch them hit the same wall. It is never the code. The wall is setup. One tutorial says put the key in an environment variable, another says edit a config file, a third uses a command that doesn't exist on your machine. Three tabs,…
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- 2026-09-22 02:04 · DEV Community — AI
My First LLM API Call Took 11 Minutes. I Now Hand This Exact Route to Everyone Who Asks