Luckyzhou

Writing about the architecture and economics of building with LLMs — API design patterns, integration costs, and the standards that quietly shape how the ecosystem actually works.

Joined on Aug 19, 2026

Luckyzhou

Sep 8

Getting a Kimi API Key Is the Easy Part — Here's the Rate Limit Gotcha That Actually Bites

#ai #api #llm #beginners

5 min read

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Sep 4

How I Actually Use OpenRouter Compare to Pick a Model (Not Just Trust the Benchmarks)

#ai #api #llm #tutorial

5 min read

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Sep 3

The Best Free OpenRouter AI Models for Programming (After Actually Testing Them)

#ai #api #llm #tutorial

6 min read

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Sep 1

My App Got Rate-Limited at 11PM. Here's How the OpenRouter AI SDK Saved My Weekend

#api #llm #openrouter #tutorial

4 min read

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Aug 28

What Is GLM? I Ran the Same Prompt Through It and GPT to Find Out.

#ai #api #llm #beginners

4 min read

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Aug 27

I Benchmarked Qwen3 Thinking Mode vs Non-Thinking on My Own Task. Here's the Script.

#ai #api #llm #tutorial

4 min read

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Aug 25

I Hit DeepSeek's Free Tier Rate Limit Mid-Project. Here's the Retry Logic I Should Have Written First.

#ai #api #llm #tutorial

4 min read

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Aug 21

DeepSeek API Tutorial: How I Built My First AI Feature as an Indie Developer

#ai #api #llm #tutorial

3 min read

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Aug 20

Why 'Cheap AI API' Pricing Keeps Dropping — And What That Tells You About the Market

#discuss #ai #llm #api

5 min read

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Aug 19

OpenAI Compatible API Isn't a Feature. It's an Interoperability Standard Nobody Formally Named

#discuss #ai #api #llm

5 min read