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Lal Muhammad
Lal Muhammad

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The AI API layer needs better tooling

A lot of AI product discussions focus on prompts, model quality, agents, and user experience.

Those things matter.

But as more teams build AI-native applications, the API layer needs better tooling too.

Developers need clearer ways to handle:

  • Model discovery
  • API access
  • Usage tracking
  • Integration documentation
  • Dashboard workflows

This is especially important when AI products move from experiments to production workflows.

ChinaRouter is one attempt to work on this layer.

It is a unified AI API gateway and admin dashboard focused on model marketplace access, API gateway workflow, usage lookup, dashboard management, and integration documentation.

Website: https://chinarouter.net/

I think this kind of infrastructure will become more important as AI applications mature.

What do you think is still missing in AI API tooling?

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