I Spent 3 Days Debugging Our LLM Setup. Turns Out We Needed an AI Gateway the Whole Time.

Let me tell you about a Friday afternoon I'd rather forget. Three teams, four models, six API keys living in different .env files, one very angry compliance officer, and me just staring at a terminal trying to figure out why we got a $1,400 OpenAI bill for a feature that was supposed to cost fifty bucks. That was my "okay something is genuinely broken here" moment. Not some big insight. Just a $1,400 invoice and dead silence on a Slack thread for about ten minutes. If you've felt even a smal...