AI Agent Architecture: Why Process-Level Resilience Beats Proxy Gateways

The Great AI Architecture Debate When building reliable AI agents, there are two dominant approaches. Approach A: Proxy Gateway (LiteLLM, Braintrust, etc.) App sends request to Gateway Proxy which forwards to LLM Provider. Requires Docker, database, operations team. Approach B: Embedded SDK (NeuralBridge) App plus SDK sends directly to LLM Provider. One dependency, pip install. The Hidden Cost of Gateways Every proxy gateway adds 30-200ms of network latency per call. For an age...