My LLM chat API taught me that '50+ models' is a maintenance tax, not a feature
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I launched my OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint with 50+ models behind one integration. The marketing math was easy: one client, any provider, swap without rewriting code. The engineering math was harder. The first cost was the model registry. Every provider ships a slightly different /models payload…
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- 2026-10-18 23:03 · DEV Community — AI
My LLM chat API taught me that '50+ models' is a maintenance tax, not a feature