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AI Gateway vs. Direct LLM API Integration: The Architecture Decision Defining Your AI Strategy

calendar_today July 2, 2026 person domain kong

Explores how AI prototypes with hardcoded provider dependencies become problematic once they scale into multiple production services, and how an AI gateway architecture avoids that lock-in.

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