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I believe he's saying that a large number of the startups he tested did not have their own backend to mediate. It was literally direct front-end calls to openai

by kllrnohj 11mo ago

I believe he's saying that a large number of the startups he tested did not have their own backend to mediate. It was literally direct front-end calls to openai. And if this sounds insane, remember that openai actually supports this: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/realtime-sessions https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/realtime-sess... Presumably OpenAI didn't add that for fun, either, so there must be non-zero demand for it.

hn_throwaway_99 11mo ago
It's a fair point that OpenAI officially supports ephemeral keys. But I still believe the vast majority of startups do wrapping in their own backend. Yes, I read what he's doing, and he's still only able to analyze client-side traffic, which means his overall claims of "73%" are complete and total bullshit. It is simply impossible to conclude what he's concluding without having access to backend network traces. EDIT: This especially doesn't make sense because the specific sequence diagram in this article shows the wrapping happening in "Startup Backend", and again, it would be impossible for him to monitor that network traffic. This entire article is made-up LLM slop.
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