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by codekansas 5 days ago
It's basically trying to replicate OpenRouter, which works pretty well and has a lot of nice features to abstract away any single provider, such as failover, metering, autoswitching, etc. It's actually a really smart infrastructure abstraction.

I just wish this were solving an actual problem rather than being a fairly transparent attempt to say something approximating, "Hey VCs, OpenRouter just became a unicorn but I can basically vibe code it"

Calling it "Fable-level" feels intellectually lazy / dishonest, but then again, what do you expect when there's so much money on the table.
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vunderba 5 days ago
It feels a bit more like Fugu to me, which acts as a multi-LLM orchestrator (though I think Fugu combines open- and closed-weight models), but without being able to see the “secret sauce” behind how any of them decides the number of "plies" each model in the swarm gets, they all feel rather difficult to compare beyond the big public benchmarks...

https://github.com/SakanaAI/fugu

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throw10920 5 days ago
Isn't Fugu the same kind of thing as NotDiamond[1] (which I believe OpenRouter uses) except not as good?

[1] https://www.notdiamond.ai/

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vunderba 5 days ago
Honestly not sure. I think Fugu tries to leverage multiple models simultaneously where something like NotDiamond is more about picking the most optimal singular model.

This space is so crowded it feels like I see a new "model router" pop up every few weeks.

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seizethecheese 5 days ago
OpenRouter's model router for coding isn't really sophisticated. This is very different.
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