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Show HN: Any-LLM – Lightweight router to access any LLM Provider

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Re: Show HN: Any-LLM – Lightweight router to access any LLM Provider

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post #16

> LiteLLM: While popular, it reimplements provider interfaces rather than leveraging official SDKs, which can lead to compatibility issues and unexpected behavior modifications with no vested interest in litellm, i'll challenge you on this one. what compatibility issues have come up? (i expect text to have the least, and probably voice etc have more but for text i've had no issues) you -want- to reimplement interface…

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Re: Show HN: Any-LLM – Lightweight router to access any LLM Provider

#62
post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LiteLLM is the worst code I have ever read in my life. Quite an accomplishment, lol.

ok still not helpful in giving substantial criticism

and you say you aren't "vested" in liteLLM?

Re: Show HN: Any-LLM – Lightweight router to access any LLM Provider

#63
post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ok still not helpful in giving substantial criticism

and you say you aren't "vested" in liteLLM?

yes, green text hn account, i am not. i just want help in properly identifying flaws in litellm. clearly nobody here is offering actual analysis.

Re: Show HN: Any-LLM – Lightweight router to access any LLM Provider

#64
post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LiteLLM is the worst code I have ever read in my life. Quite an accomplishment, lol.

ok still not helpful in giving substantial criticism

Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I'm not really interested in spending time to code review the worst code I've ever seen in 30 years of programming.

Is LiteLLM's code written by an LLM?

Re: Show HN: Any-LLM – Lightweight router to access any LLM Provider

#65
post #49

How does this differ from this project? https://github.com/simonw/llm

From my understanding of Simon's project it only supports OpenAI and OpenAI-compatible models in addition to local model support. For example, if I wanted to use a model on Amazon Bedrock I'd have to first deploy (and manage) a gateway/proxy layer[1] to make it OpenAI-compatible.

Mozzila's project boosts of a lot of existing interfaces already, much like LiteLLM, which has the benefit of directly being able to use a wider range or supported models.

> No Proxy or Gateway server required so you don't need to deal with setting up any other service to talk to whichever LLM provider you need.

Now how it compares to LiteLLM, I don't have enough experience in either to tell.

[1] https://github.com/aws-samples/bedrock-access-gateway

Re: Show HN: Any-LLM – Lightweight router to access any LLM Provider

#66
post #49

How does this differ from this project? https://github.com/simonw/llm

From my understanding of Simon's project it only supports OpenAI and OpenAI-compatible models in addition to local model support. For example, if I wanted to use a model on Amazon Bedrock I'd have to first deploy (and manage) a gateway/proxy layer[1] to make it OpenAI-compatible. Mozzila's project boosts of a lot of existing interfaces already, much like LiteLLM, which has the benefit of directly being able to use a…

Not true is use it with gemini https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/plugins/directory.html#re...

Re: Show HN: Any-LLM – Lightweight router to access any LLM Provider

#68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my understanding of Simon's project it only supports OpenAI and OpenAI-compatible models in addition to local model support. For example, if I wanted to use a model on Amazon Bedrock I'd have to first deploy (and manage) a gateway/proxy layer[1] to make it OpenAI-compatible. Mozzila's project boosts of a lot of existing interfaces already, much like LiteLLM, which has the benefit of directly being able to use a…

Not true is use it with gemini https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/plugins/directory.html#re...

Plugins! I completely missed that when testing this earlier. Thank you, will have to take another look at it.

Re: Show HN: Any-LLM – Lightweight router to access any LLM Provider

#69
post #2

There is liteLLM, OpenRouter, Arch (although that’s an edge/service proxy for agents) and now this. We all need a new problem to solve

And all of them despite 80% of model providers offering an OpenAI compatible endpoint

I think Mozilla of all people would understand why standardizing on one private organization's way of doing things might not be best for the overall ecosystem. Building a tool that meets LLM providers where they are instead of relying on them to homogenize on OpenAI's choices seems like a great reason for this project.

Re: Show HN: Any-LLM – Lightweight router to access any LLM Provider

#70

What is mozilla-ai? Seems like reputation parasitism.

Common question, thanks for asking! We’re a public benefit corporation focused on democratizing access to AI tech, on enabling non-AI experts to benefit from and control their own AI tools, and on empowering the open source AI ecosystem. Our majority shareholder is the Mozilla Foundation - the other shareholders being our employees, soon :). As access to knowledge and people shifts due to AI, we’re working to make su…

Many thanks for a detailed response! TIL!
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