Season 2 · Episode 1652
AI Gateways: The Nginx for Your AI Stack
Why agentic AI needs a unified control plane to route models, aggregate tools, and cut costs.
My Weird Prompts · Daniel Rosehill
March 28, 202619m 47s
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Show Notes
As AI systems grow from prototypes into production, they’re becoming a fragmented mess of models, tools, and dashboards. This episode explores the rise of AI gateways—a new middleware layer acting as a unified control plane. We break down how these gateways handle intelligent model routing, aggregate MCP tools for security and governance, and provide critical observability. Learn why companies like Stripe are slashing inference costs by 30-40%, compare leading solutions like Portkey AI and LiteLLM, and discover why this architectural pattern might soon become as essential for personal AI assistants as it is for enterprise platforms.