This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition
What I Built
The modern AI ecosystem relies entirely on upstream API stability. Yet, building autonomous agents right now feels like building on quicksand. OpenAI, Anthropic, and other major providers routinely suffer from latency spikes, unexpected 502 Bad Gateway errors, and aggressive 429 Too Many Requests rate limits.
For consumer apps, a dropped connection is an annoyance. For enterprise autonomous agents executing multi-step workflows, a single dropped request mid-stream can crash an entire loop—often resulting in runaway retry logic that burns hundreds of dollars in API credits before you even receive a PagerDuty alert.
I am obsessed with system architecture and high availability. I became so passionate about solving this specific edge case that I spent the last few months engineering Selixes — a high-throughput edge proxy gateway designed to sit between your application and your LLM providers.
