alt Hacker NewsI still find it hilarious that AI is so bad you need something to sit in front of it to pick models for you. And that's a normal, accepted thing.
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OpenRouter is a proxy, not an automatic router. Rather than building API clients for five different AI providers, you build one client to OpenRouter, and switching models become extremely easy. This matters when new models are coming out virtually every day.
I think that OpenRouter's goal is to have the user pick the model, so there's manual configuration for the user control and cost benefit. Maybe you meant OpenCode Zen? But let's be honest, "AI" is definitely incredible, not "hilarious", or "so bad".
I don’t think it “being bad” is the motivation. It’s about saving money and pooling cheaper resources.
>I still find it hilarious that AI is so bad you need something to sit in front of it to pick models for you. And that's a normal, accepted thing
My lord. Of all the terrible, uniformed takes the HN posters are spewing, this is the worst one I've seen in a while.
The anti-AI crowd really are clueless, eh?
No, you don’t. But most have fomo and use them.
That's not a very common pattern, to be honest. A bunch of people have been experimenting with automatic model routing recently but mainly as a cost optimization, since tokens for the best models have got expensive once you start piping millions of tokens through them.
I haven't seen much evidence that model routing is being widely used yet. I think it's still more of an experimental mechanism right now.